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His Pierced Side
“When they came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead already, they brake not His legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done, that the Scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of Him shall not be broken. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on Him whom they pierced” (John 19:33-37).
Our meditation today is taken from Hamilton Smith’s commentary on John’s Gospel, a book I highly recommend.
“The scruples of the Jews and the brutality of the soldiers broke the legs of the two thieves, and pierced the side of the Savior. How little they realized that they were sending a believer to paradise, and drawing forth the witness to the purifying and saving grace of the work of Christ, while fulfilling the Scriptures that say not a bone of Him shall be broken, and ‘They shall look on Me whom they pierced’ (Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20; Psalm 22:16-17; Zechariah 12:10).”
Take time to look up the references referred to. It will be profitable to your heart and soul.
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