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The Fifth Sorrowful Mystery - The Crucifixion

CHAPTER 20

Jesus' Burial.

And behold there was a certain rich man of Arimathe a (a city of Judea) named Joseph: a noble
counselor, and a
good and just man, who also himself was looking for the kingdom
of God, and was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews. (The same had not consented
to their counsel and doings.) This man went in boldly, and besought Pilate that he might take away
the body of Jesus.

But Pilate wondered that He should be already dead. And sending for the centurion, he asked him if
He were already dead. And when he had understood it by the centurion, he gave leave, and commanded
that the body should be delivered to Joseph.

And when evening was now come, the Jews besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that
they might be taken away (because it was the parasceve, that is, the day before the Sabbath) that
the bodies might not remain on the cross on the Sabbath day (for that was a great Sabbath day). The
soldiers therefore came, and they broke the legs of the first and of the other that was crucified
with Him. But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not
break His legs.

But one of the soldiers with a spear opened His side, and immediately there came out blood and
water. And he that saw it, hath given testimony, and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that he
saith true, that you also may believe. For these things were done that the Scripture might be
fulfilled: "You shall not break a bone of Him." And again another Scripture saith: "They shall
look on Him Whom they pierced."

And after these things, Joseph, buying fine linen, came and took the body of Jesus. And Nicodemus
also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about a hundred pound weight. And taking the body of Jesus