But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
But one of the soldiers - to make assurance of the fact doubly sure But one of the soldiers - to make assurance of the fact doubly sure,
With a spear pierced his side - making a wound deep and wide, as indeed is plain from John 20:27-29. Had life still remained it must have fled now.
And forthwith came thereout blood and water. 'It is now well known,' to use the words of Webster and Wilkinson, 'that the effect of long-continued and intense agony is frequently to produce a secretion of a colourless lymph within the pericardium (the membrane enveloping the heart), amounting in many cases to a very considerable quantity.