a 1 also, which came with him from Ga-Place. lilee, followed after, and beheld Sepulchre in the garden the sepulchre, and how his body near Mount was laid, and they returned, and Calvary. prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. 141. The transactions on the day after the crucifixion. Time. Now the next day, that Place. A. D. 33. followed the day of the Jerusalem. Day after the cruci- preparation, the chief priests and fixion. Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. Pilate said unto them, Ye * Whatever was the use of the myrrh and aloes which Nicodemus brought they could not be designed for the anointing of the body. The women must certainly have known what had been done, and yet were extremely solicitous to prepare or purchase unguents and spices that they might go and aniont him, which they did before the sabbath began. That is, Friday evening at sunset, when their sabbath commenced; the Jews always reckoning their day from the preceding evening. • His party will be stronger than before, if the people believe this. 2 have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as you can. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. Time. b And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the moday, after ther of James, and Salome, had bought the 6th hour sweet spices, that they might come in the even- and anoint him. ing. A. D. 33. * The precaution of sealing the stone often occurs in an cient times, particularly see Dan. vi. 17. ► Answering to our Saturday evening. END OF THE SIXTH PART. PART VII. THE TRANSACTIONS OF FORTY DAYS, FROM THE DAY OF THE RESURRECTION TO THE ASCENSION. 142. The first visit of the women to the sepulchre. Time. A. D. 33. AND very early in the Place. Garden near Mount Calvary. Themorning morning the first day of of the Lord's the week, they came unto day, after the the sepulchre* at the rising of the crucifixion. sun. And, behold, there was a great a a Very early in the morning, must note the time at which they set out: the rising of the sun, the time when they arrived at the sepulchre. Christ rose in the interval between their setting out and their arrival. * 1. The Area, or Portico, 6 cubits, or 9 feet in the square part. 2. Door-way into the cave or tomb, 3 feet high from the floor by 2 wide. 3. North side of the tomb, where the body of Christ is supposed to have lien, over which space is a table, by way of altar, that goes the whole length of the tomb, and occupies rather more than half its breadth. The tomb is about 8 feet long, and 7 wide. 4. The other part of the tomb where 3 or 4 may stand or kneel. 5. The rock cased with marble within and without; and adorned with ten pillars without. |