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Not a bone broken

The Old Testament

It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.

Exodus 12:46

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In the New Testament

Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”

John 19:36

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No bone of the Passover lamb may be broken. God keeps the righteous: not one of his bones is broken.

The soldiers break the legs of the two others to hasten death, but Jesus has already died. John links this to the Passover lamb. According to John, Jesus dies at the moment the Passover lambs are being slaughtered in the temple.