There stood 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 the disciple whom He loved standing by, He saith unto His
mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith He to the disciple, Behold
thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, and
so that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was
set a vessel full of vinegar. They filled a sponge and put it upon hyssop
and put it to His mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar,
He bowed His head and said, It is finished.
During the preparation for the sabbath, a high day, it was not fit that
the bodies should remain upon the cross. The Jews besought Pilate that
their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. Then came
the soldiers who broke the legs of the first and then of the other who
was crucified with Him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that He
was already dead, they broke not His legs. Instead, one of the soldiers
pierced His side with a spear and from His side came blood and water. He
that saw it bore record, and his record is true. He knoweth that he
saith truth that ye might believe. These things were done that this
scripture should be fulfilled: A bone of Him shall not be broken. And
another scripture saith, They shall look on Him whom they pierced.
After this, Joseph of Arimathaea, who, for fear of the Jews, was a secret
disciple of Jesus, besought Pilate that he might take Jesus' body. Pilate
gave him leave. With him came Nicodemus, who at the first came to Jesus
by night. He brought a mixture of about a hundred pounds worth of myrrh
and aloes. They took the body of Jesus, wound it in linen clothes, and
prepared it with the spices as the custom was of the Jews for burial. In
the place where He was crucified there was a garden. And in the garden
was a new sepulchre wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus.
20. On the first day of the week, when it was yet dark, Mary
Magdalene came early unto the sepulchre. She saw that the stone had been
taken away from the entrance. Then she ran and met Simon Peter and the
other disciple whom Jesus loved. She saith unto them, They have taken
away the Lord out of the sepulchre and we know not where they have
laid Him. Peter and the other disciple, therefore, started toward the
sepulchre. They began running together. But the other disciple, having
outrun Peter, arrived at the entrance first. Stooping down and looking
in, he saw the linen clothes lying there but he did not go in.
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