day no. 15,208: was Jesus breakable?

John 19:33-37
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”

God promised that none of His Son's bones would be broken. He fulfilled this promise by keeping his legs from being broken while He hung dying on the cross. In other words, Jesus surrendered His spirit without having it forcibly removed from Him. God could have kept His Son's legs unbroken by making them out of adamantium. He could have simply made Him unbreakable. But God did not keep His promise by making a stainless steel Jesus, but by making Jesus completely human... breakable and yet, not broken. 

John 10:35
Scripture cannot be broken

Jesus' legs were breakable. They could have been broken by clubs, but in another sense they could not have been broken, because God's Word promised that they wouldn't be. The Bible cannot be broken. God's Word is unbreakable. It is impossible to successfully thwart. God kept His Word by keeping His Son safe, not making Him indestructible. The Word cannot be broken in its office as the Word, but the Word made flesh was breakable in its office as the incarnate.

While Jesus' bones were protected by God's promises, His soul was crushed according to that same promise. His body could be pierced and it was promised beforehand that this quality is what makes for our peace.

Isaiah 53:4-5
Surely he has borne our griefs
    and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
    smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions;
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
    and with his wounds we are healed.

There is no salvation in a stainless steel Jesus. There is salvation because God keeps His Word, Jesus kept His bones in tact by keeping His Word, though the Word made flesh received many blows.