Not a Bone in Him was Broken

Christ is our Passover - He fulfills the type of the Passover Lamb, for His blood covers our sins and saves us from God's justice and the wrath we deserve. When God sees the blood, He finds our sins judged already in His Lamb the Lord Jesus!

The Scriptures always refer to the breaking of bones as a sign of judgment; but praise God, He can heal the broken bones and restore the joy of His Saints.

In fact, the Scriptures promise that God will preserve the bones of the righteous. In Psalm 34, God promised His Righteous One that not one bone of His should be broken.

For the Saints, this promise is fulfilled in Glory - as Christ explained it, though we be slain by our foes, yet not one hair of our heads shall fall! He will preserve us to the end and beyond forever in Glory!

But to THE Righteous One, the Lord Jesus Himself, this Psalm is a promise to be kept literally.

Furthermore, God commanded the people of Israel to take care not to break any bone in the paschal lamb of the Passover.

Thus, Christ went to the cross with a promise and a commandment: no bone of His was to be broken.

But the Jewish leaders demanded that Messiah's bones be broken to hasten His death. At the very time they were taking care to preserve the bones of the Passover lambs, they sought that the bones of God's Lamb be broken. And they did so ostensibly to preserve the dignity of the Sabbath!

But God preserved the bones of the Righteous Savior just as He promised, and His commandment would not be broken. Because Christ had already laid down His life before the soldiers came to break His bones, His side was riven by the spear - and God's Word was upheld on yet another point.