JOHN 19:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.”
Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out — The spear thrust (lonchē, Greek; lance in Latin tradition) into Jesus' side produces the exodus of blood and water. The phenomenon's historicity is debated, but John emphasizes its veracity ("blood and water"). The symbolism: water (baptism, life, cleansing) and blood (atonement, covenant) flow from the crucified Messiah. Medieval theologians saw this as the five wounds' fifth and source.
Church Fathers on John 19:34
The Jews who strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel after their audacious wickedness, reason scrupulously about the day: The Jews therefore because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath.
the sixth day was so called because the children of Israel prepared twice the number of loaves on that day. For that Sabbath day was an high day, i. e. on account of the feast of the passover.
Not in order to take away the legs, but to cause death, that they might be taken down from the cross, and the feast day not be defiled by the sight of such horrid torments.
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