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John 19:31

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because: John 19:14, John 19:42; Matthew 27:62; Mark 15:42

their: Lactantius says that it was a custom to break the legs of criminals upon the cross; which was done, we are told, at the instep with an iron mallet; and appears to have been a kind of coup de grace:, the sooner to put them out of pain. John 19:1; Proverbs 12:10; Micah 3:3

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