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A story in 7 stops · Exodus 12 → 1 Corinthians 5

Not one bone broken

The soldiers broke every leg but His. The Bible had said they wouldn’t, more than a thousand years earlier.

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Not one bone broken: the story, stop by stop

This story follows 7 passages of the Bible, from Exodus 12:5 to 1 Corinthians 5:7. Every gold arc is a cross-reference in the OpenBible.info data, and every verse is quoted word for word from the Berean Standard Bible.

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  1. 1 Exodus 12:5

    Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

    It starts with the first Passover, and the lamb each family had to choose.

  2. 2 Exodus 12:46

    It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.

    One strange rule about the Passover meal. Hold on to it.

  3. 3 Numbers 9:12

    they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.

    The same rule is repeated when the Law sets out the Passover again.

    • Exodus 12:46 → Numbers 9:12 · 8 reader votes

  4. 4 Psalm 34:20

    He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.

    David writes about God protecting the righteous, down to their bones.

    • Exodus 12:46 → Psalm 34:20 · 2 reader votes (weak link)

  5. 5 John 19:32–33

    32So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and those of the other.

    33But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

    At the cross, the legs are broken to hasten death before the Sabbath. When the soldiers reach Jesus, He has already died.

    • Exodus 12:46 → John 19:33 · 4 reader votes

  6. 6 John 19:36

    Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”

    John says why this matters.

    • Psalm 34:20 → John 19:36 · 50 reader votes
    • Numbers 9:12 → John 19:36 · 26 reader votes

  7. 7 1 Corinthians 5:7

    Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

    Paul names Jesus as the Passover lamb.

    • Exodus 12:5–6 → 1 Corinthians 5:7 · 9 reader votes

A lamb in Egypt with no broken bones was pointing to Jesus all along.

Made from a Christ Reels video. A cross-reference is a reader’s judgement that two passages belong together, not proof; what the links are.

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