1652 LUKE XXIII-THE BURIAL OF JESUS 45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. 46¶ And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. 47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. 48 And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned. 49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things. 50 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just: 51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. 52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. 53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. 54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. 55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. 56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment. Chapter 24 1 Christ's resurrection is declared by two angels to the women that come to the sepulchre. 9 These report it to others. 13 Christ himself appeareth to the two disciples that went to Emmaus: 36 afterwards he appeareth to the apostles and reproveth their unbelief: 47 giveth them a charge: 49 promiseth the Holy Ghost: 51 and so ascendeth into heaven. HOW upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. 3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: 5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, 7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. 8 And they remembered his words, 9 And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother Jesus Among Foreigners BY JEAN GERMAIN DROUET, A FRENCH ARTIST, DIED 1788. + "For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet." -Mark, 7, 25. A FTER this break with both the multitude and the Pharisees, it would seem that Jesus was not safe even in Galilee. He left the Jewish land entirely and went with His disciples "into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it; but he could not be hid." In this temporary seclusion among foreigners, Jesus seems to have performed only a single miracle, and that, as it were, unwillingly. A Greek woman hearing of the Christ, cried after Him in the streets, and forced herself into His presence, insisting with true motherly devotion that He should cure her daughter. At first Jesus held back; perhaps He meant to try her faith. Using the common phrase of the Jews against foreigners, He declared that one should not throw the children's meat to dogs. But the mother refused to be repulsed. She pleaded that the dogs too should receive some crumbs. "Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour." |