One of the soldiers, being concerned that the
One of the soldiers, being concerned that the Lord might not actually be dead, pierced His side with a spear. This fulfilled the prophecy in Zech ariah 12:10: "They shall look upon me whom they have pierced." It was absolutely of God's sovereignty that these things happened in such a meaningful and wonderful way. This proves strongly that the Lord's death was not acciden tal, but that it was planned by God "before the foundation of the world" (1 Pet. 1:19-20).
The Lord's having none of His bones broken was typified by the bones of the Passover lamb. In the institution of the Passover, God ordained that none of the lamb's bones should be broken (Exo. 12:46; Num. 9:11-12). This was a wonder ful type. Later, in Psalm 34:20 this was also proph esied. Both the type and the prophecy were fulfilled in the Lord's death on the cross.
In Genesis 2:21-23, we find the Scripture's first mention of "bone," which was a rib taken out of Adam for producing and building Eve as a match for Adam. Eve was a type of the church produced with the Lord's resurrection life that was released out of Him. In other words, the church came out of the resurrection life, the unbroken life, the incorruptible life of Christ. His is the life which can never be hurt, damaged,