John 19:14
preparation <3904> [the preparation.]
noon <1623> [the sixth.]
Instead of [hektos <\\See definition 1623\\>,] sixth, several MSS. and fathers have [tritos <\\See definition 5154\\>,] third, as in the parallel place.
<2396> [Behold.]
John 19:31
because <1893> [because.]
so that ... bodies ............ that <3363 1565 2443 4983> [that the.]
so that ............ Sabbath ... that Sabbath <3363 1565 2443 4521> [that sabbath.]
victims <846> [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.
