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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 19:34 - 19:34
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But one of the soldiers - to make assurance of the fact doubly sure.
with a spear pierced his side - making a wound deep and wide, as indeed is plain from Joh 20:27, Joh 20:29. Had life still remained, it must have fled now.
and forthwith came thereout blood and water - “It is now well known that the effect of long-continued and intense agony is frequently to produce a secretion of a colorless lymph within the pericardium (the membrane enveloping the heart), amounting in many cases to a very considerable quantity” [Webster and Wilkinson].