A long time ago reading about the bones of Jesus not being broken whereas they broke the bones of the crucified b y him I wanted to know why... What were those bones? What did/do they represent? They are important, but why?
Going through the Bible it was easy enough to come up with verses about what happens to the bones of men, but what about what happened to the bones of Jesus? What do you think about it?
I will post here some of the verses involved:
The Passover Lamb:
"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." Ex 12:46
"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" Num 9:12
And then the prophecy of the real Lamb of God:
"He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken." Psalm 34:20
And then John the Baptist witnessing to the real Lamb of God:
"And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!" John 1:36
And our bones, the bones of carnal men, the bones of those needing salvation:
"For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust." Psalm 103:4 [Our frame, like the 2 x 4s and such the frame of a house ready to hold the walls and roof which are to protect us against the elements. What kind of walls can be supported by a frame of dust? What kind of a covering can we have? Remember the fig leaves of the Adam & Eve replaced by skins from God replaced by what?]
But, we in our humility speak out through bones that in ourselves we have insufficient strength to endure to the end. We need His help:
"All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?" Psalm 35:10
My bones, that is our bones, strong as they may seem in our youth, cannot make it. They will be broken, consumed, burned, scattered...!
"For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth." Psalm 102:3
"Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth." Psalm 141:7
"There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them." Psalm 53:5
And then the tongue, a soft, little member?
"Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." James 3:5-8
But what bone is it that the tongue breaks?
"By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone." Prov. 25:15
Not so the bones of Jesus!
And the response of our broken bones when we are able to hear Him:
"Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice." Psalm 51:8
And then the fulfillment of prophecy in Jesus:
"Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken." John 19:32-36
When our own legs [given strength by strong bones] are led by our own carnal mind... where is it that we will walk...? Certainly not toward God! We cannot know our own way. We need direction, but until we have a Director to direct us on legs strong enough to endure to the end...break them?
"O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jerem 10:23
But then when Jesus is our Head are we not directed to walk rightly on strong legs which have never been broken!
This is the rough outline of verses I collected. I believe they are meaningful. Hopefully you can see something of what I see...?
