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The Thieves' Legs Are Broken
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31 Now it was the day
of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews
did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked
Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
32 The soldiers therefore came and
broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then
those of the other. 33 But when they
came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
John 19:31-33 |
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Paintings by by James Jacques Tissot (French painter and illustrator, 1836-1902).
Biography. Nearly all of Tissot's paintings of the Life of Christ (1884-1896) are rendered in opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper and are owned by the
Brooklyn Museum, New York.
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