Flight of the Nine--Captive Lord--Peter and John Following--The Palace--Disciple Within and Disciple Without--Peter Brought In--The First Denial--John's Watch of Peter--Peter's Tears--His Restlessness--His Sin and John's Silence--Three Turning and Looking--John's Pity for Peter--John and Pilate--Christ a King--"What is Truth?"--The Mocked King--"Behold the Man"--"Behold your King"--John the Faithful Watcher and Comforter 176 CHAPTER XXVI JOHN THE LONE DISCIPLE AT THE CROSS Following the Cross--Jesus Bearing the Cross--Wearing the Thorny Crown--Great Multitude Following--"Daughters of Jerusalem"--Calvary--John's Memories--Group of Four Enemies--Seamless Coat--Casting Lots--Jesus and the Gamblers--Three Marys and Salome--John their Companion--A Contrast--Other Apostles--John and Salome--A Mother's Love--Mary's Thoughts--Sword of Anguish--Comfort in Sorrow--Lonely Future--Loyal Son--New Relation--Mary's Return from the Cross--Why John Her Guardian--A Poet's Words to John--In the New Home 184 CHAPTER XXVII JOHN THE LONE DISCIPLE AT THE CROSS--CONTINUED "I Thirst"--"It Is Finished"--The Bowed Head--The Women and John--His Anxious Thoughts Relieved--Pierced Side--Two Prophecies--Prayer in Song--Joseph of Arimathaea--Nicodemus--Two Secret Friends of Jesus--Two Gardens--The Stone Closing the Tomb--Two Mourners at the Tomb--John's Thoughts on Leaving the Tomb 195 CHAPTER XXVIII JOHN AT THE TOMB John and Mary Magdalene--Mary's Mistaken Inference--Her Report to Peter and John--Their Hastening Toward the Tomb--John Alone at the Tomb--Silent Witnesses--Peter's Entry and Discovery--John Within the Tomb--The Rolled Napkin--Seeing and Believing--Lingering in the Tomb--The Return from the Tomb--Weeping Mary--Silence of Angels--Mary and the Angels--Jesus Unknown to Mary--"Mary" and "Rabboni"--John's Two Records of Mary--Day of Days--Evening Benedictions--Pierced Side--Close of John's Gospel 204 CHAPTER XXIX "WHAT SHALL THIS MAN DO?" An Added Chapter--Old Scenes Revived--Following Peter--Stranger on the Shore--John and Peter--John's Remembrance of the Miracle--"Fire of Coals"--Reverent Guests--"Lovest Thou Me?"--"Feed My Lambs and Sheep"--An Interested Listener--A Prophecy--John Following Peter--Question and Answer--Mistake Corrected by John--Partial Answer to Peter's Questions--A Former Hour Recalled 212 CHAPTER XXX ST. JOHN A PILLAR-APOSTLE IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH