For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.”

And again another scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”

(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty!”

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken),

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

“What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, ‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’

When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

So the soldiers said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it.” This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice.” So the soldiers did these things.