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22 Pilate answered, ‘I will not change what I have written.’

23 After the soldiers had put Jesus on the cross, they took his clothes. They made them into four parts, one part for each soldier. They also took his long shirt, which was one single piece of cloth. 24 So they said to each other, ‘We will not tear it. Instead, we will play a game with dice. The person who wins the game will have the shirt.’ This happened in the way that the Bible had already said:

    ‘Each of them took some of my clothes.
    They played a game with dice to win what I was wearing.’
And that is what the soldiers did.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 19:24 See Psalms 22:18.