32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.
32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him.
32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man crucified with Jesus, and then the other.
32 Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Him.
32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men crucified with Jesus.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 19:32
Commentary on John 19:31-37
(Read John 19:31-37)
A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. But its being so solemnly attested, shows there was something peculiar in it. The blood and water that flowed out, signified those two great benefits which all believers partake of through Christ, justification and sanctification; blood for atonement, water for purification. They both flow from the pierced side of our Redeemer. To Christ crucified we owe merit for our justification, and Spirit and grace for our sanctification. Let this silence the fears of weak Christians, and encourage their hopes; there came both water and blood out of Jesus' pierced side, both to justify and sanctify them. The Scripture was fulfilled, in Pilate's not allowing his legs to be broken, Exodus 12:46. May we ever look to Him, whom, by our sins, we have ignorantly and heedlessly pierced, nay, sometimes against convictions and mercies; and who shed from his wounded side both water and blood, that we might be justified and sanctified in his name.