"Also: The symbolism here used helps center our attention in the atoning sacrifice of the Son. The same elements were then present:
"Blood (in that he there completed the act, commenced in Gethsemane, of shedding his own blood for the sins of men)
"Water (in that when one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side...forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it [John himself] bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.) (John 19:34-35)"
