Now for the evidence of it. I have been quoting from St. Matthew’s account of this miracle. What would a dispassionate and intelligent heathen say of it, coming for the first time to the study of our four Gospels? Would it not be something of this sort: “Here you call on me to believe a miracle that appears to me to be motiveless and is certainly singularly startling: but I will suspend my judgment of it till I hear the accounts given by your other three Evangelists. What do they say of the effect produced upon the disciples and bystanders by this earthquake and this most extraordinary resurrection? There were present the women that loved and followed Jesus, there was the Roman centurion, there were ‘many’ who witnessed the appearances of the dead: even to those who were not present, an earthquake rending the rocks in the neighbourhood could not be imperceptible: what therefore is said on these points by other contemporary authors as well as by your four Gospels? Tell me that first; and then I will tell you what I think of the miracle.” In answer to this request, which I think we must characterize as a very natural one, we should have first to admit that no profane author makes any mention of the resurrection of these numerous “bodies,” nor of the earthquake that accompanied it. Then we should have to set down the four records of the four Evangelists as follows: [Transcriber’s Note: The following four quotations were originally printed side-by-side. They are transcribed one after another so as to be readable on modern reading devices, which often cannot handle multiple columns.] Mark xv. 37-39. 37. And Jesus uttered a loud voice and gave up the ghost. 38. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. 39. And when the centurion, which stood by over against him, saw that he so gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God. Matt. xxvii. 50-54. 50. And Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit. 51. And behold the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom [_and the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent:_ 52. _And the tombs were opened: and many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised;_ 53. _And coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered into the holy city and appeared unto many._] 54. Now the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, when they saw [_the earthquake and_] the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God. Luke xxii. 46-7. 46. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said this, he gave up the ghost. 47. And when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. John xix. 30, 31.