Identifier: jesusofnazarethh00abbo (find matches)
Title: Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922
Subjects: Jesus Christ
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r, one of the soldiers thrust his spear into Jesuss side.Clots of extravasated blood and water flowed from thewound. The heart, already weakened by the agony in thegarden, had broken beneath the greater agony of Calvary.It was not the protracted anguish of the cross that slewJesus. Rarely, if ever, did the victim of crucifixion perish inless than twenty-four hours. It was not the spear-thrust ofthe soldier. He was then already dead. It was the inex-plicable anguish of bearing the sins of the whole world. Ex-hausted by the vigils of the night before, the spiritual agonyof that hour seems to have ruptured his heart. Literally, itwas the sins for w^hich he was sacrificed that slew him. Lit-erl^Uy, he died at last of a broken heart.J; Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy and honored member ofthe Sanhedrim, hitherto a secret disciple of Jesus, but afterhis death a disciple in secret no longer, demanded the body * Mark xv., 39. t Matt, xxvii., 54. X John xix., 3+. See note at end of this chapter.
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THE MARTS AT THE TOMB. Fri., Apr. 7.) MAEYS AT THE TOMB. 489 of his Lord from Pilate. The procurator, surj3rised to learnthat Jesus was already dead, readily granted the request.The councilors summer garden was near the place of exe-cution. His family tomb was in the midst of it. It hadnever been used. The body of Jesus was taken from thecross, partially, but of necessity hurriedly jDrej^ared for buri-al, and laid here to rest over the Sabbath. As the twilight of that Friday evening gathered over thisgarden, the moon looked down upon two A^eiled figures,mourners of their Lord—Mary Magdalene, and Mary, motherof Jesus.* The one loved him with the ardor of a mothersheart, the other with the ardor of one rescued from a livingdeath by his all-powerful words. They had accounted himthe Lord of glory. They had seen him crowned only in de-rision, and had followed him only to the tomb. Thej satweeping at his grave. Their perplexed faith had no illumi-nation of hope to offer to their desolated

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