²⁴ They said therefore among themselves, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says:

Therefore the soldiers did these things.

³⁶ For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, ^(A)“Not one of His bones shall be broken.”

³⁷ And again another Scripture says, ^(A)“They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”

²² So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: