"See from His head, His hands, His feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down: Did e'er such love and sorrow meet? Or thorns compose so rich a crown? "Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were an offering far too small: Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all. "To Christ, who won for sinners grace By bitter grief and anguish sore, Be praise from all the ransomed race For ever and for evermore." Now there were standing by the cross of Jesus, His mother, and His mother's sister Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw His mother, and John, the disciples whom He loved, standing there, He charged him to take care of His dear mother; and John took her to his own home from that hour. And now everything was done which the Scriptures had said should happen; and Jesus, knowing this, said, "I thirst!" And one ran and filled a sponge with vinegar and put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth. And when Jesus had received the vinegar, He said, "It is finished!" And He gave up His spirit into His Father's keeping; and then He died. XXIII. The Sealed Tomb Now when the centurion who was in charge of the soldiers who crucified Jesus, saw all the things that had happened—His wonderful love and patience, His dying words, the darkness and the great earthquake,—he feared greatly, and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!" And there were many women there, standing as near as they dared. Among these was Mary Magdalene, out of whom Jesus had cast seven devils; and Mary the mother of James and Joses; and Salome the mother of Zebedee's children, James and John, the disciples who had been with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, and at other special times during His ministry. So these women stood and waited near the cross all those long hours till the evening, to see what they would do with their Lord. And when the evening had come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph. He was a counsellor and much respected among the Jews; and when the Lord had been condemned by them, he had not consented to what they had done. He was looking for the Kingdom of God, like many other godly Jews at that time. So he brought fine linen to wrap the precious body of Jesus in; and sweet spices for His burial. And he went boldly in to Pilate and begged him to give him the body of Jesus. So Pilate gave him leave, and Joseph hastened back to take Jesus down from the cross, and to wrap Him in beautiful pure linen, and to carry Him away to his own new tomb which was in a garden close to Calvary. We are told by those who have been there, that just beneath that hill outside Jerusalem called The Skull, there is a garden with a tomb in it, cut out of the rock. It is thought by some, that this is the tomb in which Jesus was laid; but no one can be quite certain that this is so.