Did the Romans not breaking Jesus' legs fulfill a prophecy?
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Exodus 12:46 and Numbers 9:12 talk of the Passover lamb, of which no bone shall be broken.
Before deciding whether the decision not to break Jesus' legs to hasten death was really in fulfilment of these as prophecies, it is useful to discover whether this might have been a common occurrence. John Dominic Crossan says in The Birth of Christianity, pages 543-4, that so far only a single crucified skeleton from first-century Judea has been found by archaeologists: his legs were also not broken.
John's Gospel depicts Jesus at his crucifixion in terms of the Passover lamb, so much so that this Gospel changes the timing of the crucifixion from the day following the Passover feast (Luke 22:15: "And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer") to the day prior (John 19:14: "And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!").
The author of John's Gospel chose to alter the date of the crucifixion from that he found in Luke's Gospel, in order to help draw comparisons between Jesus and the lamb sacrificed for the Passover feast, so it is not entirely improbable that, for the same reason, he also wrote the account of Jesus legs not being broken. If so, this is not the fulfilment of prophecies in the normal sense.
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Yes, you're absolutely right! Jesus never broke any bones. That's a fulfillment of the prophecy from Old Testament and it's written about in John.
John 19:36 (NIV) These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,"
The prophecy that John refers to is found in Psalms 34:20:
Psalms 34:19-20 (NIV)
19 The righteous person may have many troubles,
but the LORD delivers him from them all;
20 he protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.
Also related to this is the regulations regarding the passover lamb:
Exodus 12:46 (NIV)
It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.
Those were the regulations for the lamb that was slain for the passover feast. There are many passages that relate Jesus to the passover lamb. This lack of broken bones is one of these connections. (This regulation can also be seen in Numbers 9:12.)
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