Psalms 22:17

"I may count all my bones.

They look and stare upon me;

They part my garments among them,

And upon my vesture do they cast lots."

No Christian needs to be told that three of the holy gospels recorded the fulfilment of the prophecies in these two verses, namely, in Matthew 27:35; Luke 23:34; and John 19:24.

"I may count all my bones" (Psalms 22:15). "Crucifixion would have extended the frame and have thrown the bones of the thorax into prominence."[16]

"They part my garments among them, and upon my vesture do they cast lots" (Psalms 22:16). These prophecies were fulfilled by the soldiers who executed Our Lord. There could not possibly have been any collusion or pre-arrangement by Jesus' disciples to help bring this about. Oh no! Most of them were already far away, having forsaken the Lord and fled. Like many other of these prophecies, they were fulfilled by the enemies of Jesus, who were totally unaware that what they were doing had already been spelled out in the Bible 800 years before the occasion of their deeds. No infidel can laugh this off. No radical critic can get rid of the evidence in this chapter.

It should be noted that there were two methods of disposing of Jesus' garments. First, by agreement, the soldiers distributed part of his clothes; but the presence of a valuable vesture, perhaps a garment very similar to that which the High Priest of Israel wore into the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement, if indeed not actually identical with it, prompted the soldiers to refrain from tearing it into pieces as they had probably done with Jesus' other garments. So they decided to cast lots for it! What are the odds, really, against such a prophecy having been fulfilled accidentally? The size of such odds staggers the imagination. The hand of Almighty God is surely visible here.