JOHN 19:35 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.”
He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth — John inserts a direct claim to eyewitness testimony, likely authorial self-reference ("the disciple whom Jesus loved"). The emphatic assertion—"His testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth"—defends the water and blood's reality against skeptics. The testimony serves belief: that readers may believe in the reality of Jesus' death and its redemptive significance.
Church Fathers on John 19:35
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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