because: Joh 19:14, Joh 19:42; Mat 27:62; Mar 15:42
that the: Deu 21:22-23
that sabbath: Lev 23:7-16
their: Lactantius says that it was a custom to break the legs of criminals upon the cross; which was done, we are told, at the instep with an iron mallet; and appears to have been a kind of coup de grace, the sooner to put them out of pain. Joh 19:1; Pro 12:10; Mic 3:3