As we focus upon the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as the antitype of the Passover lamb, some have expressed concern about the contradiction of "Christ's broken body" described in the King James Version of I Corinthians 11:24 and the prophetic Psalm 34:20 stating, "not one of His bones will be broken." John 19:36 -37 reveal two prophetic prophecies that "Not a bone of Him shall be broken" and "they shall look on Him whom they pierced." E. W. Bullinger states that references to "Christ's broken body" are not found in the original manuscripts but inserted by a careless or agenda driven translator working on the King James Bible. In the updated revisions, most references to Christ's broken body have been eliminated. To be sure, the bread symbolizes Christ's flesh and the wine symbolize His blood. But the fact that the soldiers did not break Christ's legs fulfills the prophetic Psalm 34. Jesus is the fulfillment of the Passover Lamb whose bones were to be left intact. The piercing represented a parallel that the lamb was to be bled by splitting its throat. The cruel Roman practice of scourging made it possible to number the bones as the flesh was disfigured (Isaiah 52:14). Jesus did not suffocate but suffered shock and blood loss, like the Passover Lamb. As the collective Bride of Christ, bone of His bone flesh of His flesh, we are an integral part of the Lord's Body, which should be unified and not divided. Unity flourishes when we get our minds off self and onto serving our spiritual siblings.

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