Now was there any thing of this but in fulfilling of the Scripture; for it was God’s law about the passover, Exo_12:46Num_9:12, concerning the paschal lamb, (which was a type of Christ, Joh_1:291Co_5:7), that a bone of it should not be broken. So as by this breaking no bone of Christ’s body, they might have understood that he was figured out by the paschal lamb.