The Sepulchre in the Garden; Or, the Buried and Risen Saviour
by William Landels (9781150191916)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV. THE PLACE WHERE THE LORD LAY. " He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay." -- Matt, xxviii. 6. On the evening after the Crucifixion we left the two women, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre, unable to tear themselves away from the place which contained the lifeless form of their crucified Lord. The Sabbath has now passed, and on the first day of the week, early in the morning, " while it was yet dark," according to John, we find them there again. The same love which rendered them so loath to go, renders them equally eager to return; and as they were the last to leave when night spread its shadow over the land, so now, having remained at home or joined in temple worship during the Sabbath, as the law of Moses required, they are, when the next morning dawns, the first to visit " the place where the Lord lay." Several occurrences have taken place in the interval, to which, for the sake of preserving the thread of the narrative, we may for a moment advert. The usual temple services appointed for the great Sabbath of thePassover have been observed, though, the priests, as we may suppose, are ill at ease, owing to the supernatural signs which they have witnessed, and which the rent veil of the temple, not yet repaired, will not suffer them to forget. Nor are these the only reasons they have for the misgivings which trouble them. From some source or other, probably from Judas the traitor, they had heard of those sayings of our Lord in which He had foretold His resurrection; and to prevent His disciples stealing His body, in ...

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