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And many women were there, beholding afar off,

Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.

Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.

CHAPTER CXXX.

Christ's side is pierced: he is taken down and buried.

THE Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day, (for that sabbath-day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.

But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:

But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came thereout blood and water.

And he that saw it bare record, and his reeord is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

For these things were done, that the

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