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Part X . From the Death of Christ to his Ascension . At the very time of our Lord ' s death , the Pharisees , and probably the greater part of the Jews of Judea , were preparing for the celebration of the Passover , which that year occurred , according to their traditional system , at the commencement of the sabbath . To prevent what they regarded as a violation of the sabbath—that the persons crucified should remain on the cross after the sabbath had begun—the chief men requested Pilate to have their legs broken . The Roman soldiers charged with the execution of this
request , found , on coming to Jesus , that he was already dead ; but one of them so pierced his side with a spear—from what motive we can only conjecture—that if life had not been extinct , death must have followed . Two of the Jewish rulers now came forwards to shew their respect for Jesus , and their attachment to his cause , by hastily , yet expensively , embalming
him , and then laying him in the sepulchre of Joseph , near the place of crucifixion . Mary Magdalene , and other female disciples , observed the place of burial ; and then withdrew to prepare spices and ointments for a more complete embalment after the sabbath was ended . The feelings of that day , in the minds of the enemies of Christ , of his friends and disciples , and of the people at large , may be in some measure imagined ; and if we
take single individuals , whose character is more or less known to us , we may find abundance to exercise the imagination in such a way as to increase the vividness of the conviction that all recorded was reality . The next
day , though the sabbath still continued , the Jewish rulers sealed the sepulchre , and at the entrance set a guard of Roman soldiers , given them for the purpose by the Governor . But " God raised up Jesus . " On the
following morning , the third day from his burial , our Saviour rose triumphantly from the tomb to an everlasting life ; and thus became the first fruits of those who sleep . The succession of the events which occurred soon after the resurrection of Christ , connected with the first disclosure of it , is attended with much difficulty : but the following account appears the most accordant with the records . The views and reasonings on which it is founded , may be seen in the little tract from which it is taken . *
* ' The sepulchre in which c the Lord lay' was in a garden , near the place of crucifixion . This spot is within the present walls of Jerusalem , but it was without the ancient wall on the west .-f It was a cave hollowed out in ^^— — . ¦ — - ^ ¦ ... ^ . ^ . . ^ MV
* See Dr . Carpenter's Observations on the Order of the Events which occurred on the Morning of the Resurrection , in the Christian Reformer for May last ; to be had , as a separate tract , at Mr . Hunter ' s . f ' * This is written advisedly , after a careful consideration of the objections of some modern travellers , and particularly of Dv . Richardson , whose accuracy of observation deserves great praise . If he had had , as well , Mr . Carne ' s power of
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658 On the Chronology and Arrangement of * the Gospel Narrative
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 658, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/6/
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