Poor John. He forgot those other words of His Lord concerning His life,--"I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." The Lord had done the one already: He was soon to do the other, though His sorrowing disciple understood it not. Meanwhile we leave him, resting if possible from the weariness of the garden and the palace and Calvary, during that Friday night, which was to be followed by a day of continued sadness, and that by another night of sorrowful restlessness. _CHAPTER XXVIII_ _John at the Tomb_ "Now on the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, while it was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the stone taken away from the tomb. She runneth therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved. "Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they went toward the tomb. "Simon Peter ... entered into the tomb. "Then entered in therefore the other disciple also, ... and he saw and believed."--_John_ xx. 1, 2, 3, 6, 8. "Let us take John for our instructor in the swiftness of love, and Peter for our teacher in courage."--_Stalker_. "Oh, sacred day, sublimest day! Oh, mystery unheard! Death's hosts that claimed Him as their prey He scattered with a word; And from the tomb He valiant came; And ever blessed be His name." --_Kingo. Trans. Hymns of Denmark_. "Mine eye hath found that sepulchral rock That was the casket of Heav'n's richest store." --_Milton_.--_The Passion_. Of the women who visited the tomb of Jesus on the morning of the Resurrection, John was especially interested in Mary Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, probably in his presence; thus giving him opportunity to see the marvelous change from a most abject condition, to grateful devotion to her Healer, perhaps beyond that of any other one whom He healed. John long remembered her starting on her errand "while it was yet dark." So he remembered Judas starting when "it was night" on his errand, of which Mary's was the sad result. One was a deed of love which no darkness hindered: the other was a deed of hate which no darkness prevented or concealed.