²⁴ “Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.”

This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled^(A) that said,

So this is what the soldiers did.

The Death of Jesus^(A)

²⁸ Later, knowing that everything had now been finished,^(B) and so that Scripture would be fulfilled,^(C) Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

³⁶ These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled:^(A) “Not one of his bones will be broken,”^[a](B)

³⁷ and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”^[a](A)