But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
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Gill's Exposition
But when they came to Jesus,.... Whom they passed by before, and now returned to; this they did not out of tenderness to him, but that he might be the longer in his torture, and whom they reserved…
Barnes' Notes
Saw that he was dead - Saw by the indications of death on his person, and perhaps by the testimony of the centurion, Mat 27:54. The death of Jesus was doubtless hastened by the intense agony of the…
This passage concerning the piercing of Christ's side after his death is recorded only by this evangelist.
I. Observe the superstition of the Jews, which occasioned it (Joh 19:31): Because it was the…
The Death and Burial
For what is peculiar to S. John's narrative in this section see the introductory note to chap. 18. Besides this, the title on the cross, the Jews" criticism of it, and the…