34. 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 Joh 20:27, 29. Had life still remained, it must have fled now.
      and forthwith came thereout blood and water--"It is now well known that the effect of long-continued and intense agony is frequently to produce a secretion of a colorless lymph within the pericardium (the membrane enveloping the heart), amounting in many cases to a very considerable quantity" [WEBSTER and WILKINSON].

JFB.