John 19:34 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

However, one of the soldiers stabbed Jesus' side with his spear, and blood and water immediately came out.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

howbeit one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there came out blood and water.

BBE:

But one of the men made a wound in his side with a spear, and straight away there came out blood and water.

DBY:

but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.

ERV:

howbeit one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there came out blood and water.

WEY:

One of the soldiers, however, made a thrust at His side with a lance, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

WBS:

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

WEB:

However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

YLT:

but one of the soldiers with a spear did pierce his side, and immediately there came forth blood and water;

John 19:34 Cross References

XREF:

1 John 5:6 This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

1 John 5:8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

19:34 {11} But one of the soldiers with a spear {d} pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
(11) Christ, being dead upon the cross, witnesses by a double sign that he alone is the true satisfaction, and the true washing for the believers.
(d) This wound was a most manifest witness of the death of Christ: for the water that issued out by this wound shows us plainly that the weapon pierced the very skin that encompasses the heart, and this skin is the vessel that contains the water; and once that is wounded, the creature which is so pierced and stricken has no choice but to die.

PNT:

19:34 Pierced his side. Finding him lifeless, the soldiers did not break his legs, but to make sure of death thrust a spear into his side.
Came there out blood and water. The water, with clots of blood, can be accounted for only the previous rupture of the heart and the flow of blood into the pericardium, or outer sack of the heart, where it would separate very rapidly into water and clots of blood. Hence, it seems certain that the immediate physical cause of the death of Christ was rupture of the heart.

WES:

19:34 Forthwith there came out blood and water - It was strange, seeing he was dead, that blood should come out; more strange, that water also; and most strange of all, that both should come out immediately, at one time, and yet distinctly. It was pure and true water, as well as pure and true blood. The asseveration of the beholder and testifier of it, shows both the truth and greatness of the miracle and mystery.

MHC:

19:31-37 A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. But its being so solemnly attested, shows there was something peculiar in it. The blood and water that flowed out, signified those two great benefits which all believers partake of through Christ, justification and sanctification; blood for atonement, water for purification. They both flow from the pierced side of our Redeemer. To Christ crucified we owe merit for our justification, and Spirit and grace for our sanctification. Let this silence the fears of weak Christians, and encourage their hopes; there came both water and blood out of Jesus' pierced side, both to justify and sanctify them. The Scripture was fulfilled, in Pilate's not allowing his legs to be broken, Ps 34:20. There was a type of this in the paschal lamb, Ex 12:46. May we ever look to Him, whom, by our sins, we have ignorantly and heedlessly pierced, nay, sometimes against convictions and mercies; and who shed from his wounded side both water and blood, that we might be justified and sanctified in his name.

CONC:

Blood Bringing Flow Flowed Forth Forthwith Howbeit However Immediately Lance Pierce Pierced Soldiers Spear Straight Straightway Sudden Thrust Wound

Blood Flow Flowed Forth Forthwith Howbeit However Immediately Instead Jesus Lance Once Pierce Pierced Side Soldiers Spear Straight Straightway Sudden Thrust Water Wound

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