And you continue to divert attention from your deficiencies.
Muz, Muz, Muz, here is what you are doing:
You are ignoring the many prophecies that were fulfilled. You are clinging to one little detail that was not confirmed in the NT, and therefore dismissing the entire prophecy of Psalm 22. Again, just because one detail of the prophecy from the OT is not given in the NT does not mean that the prophecy was not fulfilled. You cannot prove a negative!
Plus, you are dismissing the details that are beyond a shadow of doubt as “just poetry”
So, I will keep giving you more prophecies. I’ll skip Psalms, since you will claim “just poetry”.
Let’s go back to the crucifixion again:
(John 19:31)
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.
This was a special time of year for the Jews because several sabbaths were observed nearly one after another. The first of the seven days of Unleavened Bread was also the Passover day (the Jews measured their days from sundown to sundown instead of from midnight to midnight). We also know that Christ died on a Wednesday, not on the traditional Good Friday. Thus, from approximately six o’clock Tuesday evening until approximately six o’clock Wednesday evening was celebrated the Feast of the Passover.
The Passover lamb was slain, and the memorial meal was eaten on what we call Tuesday night. This was the “preparation” for Wednesday, which was the actual Passover day. As the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, this Wednesday, described in John 19:31, was also designated as the preparation day for the rest of the week-long observance .
This was why the Jews “
besought Pilate that their legs might be broken.” It was the Roman custom to leave a body nailed to the cross until the flesh rotted away. They liked to make a lasting impression. But Jewish law demanded that the body of any criminal be put out of sight during a sabbath or feast day in order not to pollute the land (Deut. 21:22- 23).
Breaking the legs was a Roman technique which consisted of shattering the leg bones with a heavy mallet in order to expedite the death of those being crucified.
(John 19:32)
Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
The Roman soldiers went up to the two thieves, one on each side of Jesus, and in order to be able to take them down by nightfall, they pounded their legs until the bones were crushed. Thrown into deeper shock and suddenly unable to force themselves up to relieve pressure, they died of suffocation.
(John 19:33)
But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
This is simply evidence of the fact that Christ was physically dead. The soldiers on the execution detail that day saw that he was “dead already.” The fact that the soldiers
did not break His legs is a fulfillment of specific promises contained in the OT Scriptures.
(Exodus 12:46)
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
(Num 9:12)
They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
(John 19:36-37)
For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. 37And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
And for good measure Muz, we will throw in some poetry: (Psalm 34:20)
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
So Muz, explain to all of us non-open theists how the above OT scripture was able to be written hundreds of years before the cross, and yet play out exactly as written.
P.S. I only used one verse from Psalms, so you will have to do better than “just poetry”
