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John 19:36
For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him.
John 19:36 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
John 19:36 in other translations
For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”
For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”
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In context
33 But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side: and immediately there came out blood and water.
35 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.
36 For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him.
37 And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced.
38 And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews), besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He came therefore and took away the body of Jesus.
39 And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
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