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the side of a rock , with a low and narrow door-way into it . The sepulchre appears to have been about twelve feet long and seven broad , and about seven high . —Mary Magdalene came to the garden ' while it was yet dark ; ' and if , ( as may be inferred from the narratives of the first three Evangelists ) she went to the sepulchre in company with the other women , she probably waited their arrival before she entered the garden . It is a reasonable
supposition , that the entrance to the garden was the appointed place of meeting . Mary may have come from some house at no great distance , on the side of Mount Zion , where also Peter and John abode at this point of time . Besides Mary Magdalene , there appear to have been two companies of women . Joanna with her companions would , of course , come from near the residence of Herod , which was on Bezetha , the northern part of the city , about a quarter of a mile from the sepulchre : * the other Mart / , ' if the sister of
Lazarus , would have to come over the Mount of Olives , and cross the city south of the Temple . Bethany was about two miles and three quarters from the sepulchre ; and as our Lord , during this last visit to Jerusalem , went out to Bethany , with his disciples , and lodged there ; and as it was > the residence of Lazarus and his sisters , it is reasonable to suppose that most of the Apostles and the Galilean women would now be lodging there . * ' The other Mary ' with her companions , and Joanna with hers , joined Mary Magdalene
sufficiently early for them all to be approaching the sepulchre ' at the rising of the sun . * Not long , probably , before this , the - ' Angel of the Lord * had rolled back the stone , and the terrified soldiers had left their station . The women were obviously not aware of the setting of the guard , and were only apprehensive respecting their power of rolling away the stone ; but , on coming near the sepulchre , they found that it had been removed . Mary Magdalene at once , inferring from this that the body of the Lord had been
taken away , ran to tell Peter and John . In the mean time the other women entered the sepulchre , received the heaven-sent tidings , and quickly left the garden of Joseph . At the entrance into the city the two parties would of course divide ; Joanna and her companions proceeding towards the north of the city ; and ' the other Mary * with hers , across it towards Bethany . The
former , then , knew no more than what the angels had communicated : and before more was known among their acquaintance , those two disciples set out for Emmaus , { Luke xxiv . 22—24 , ) who in the later part of the day saw Jesus . —After the other women had left the spot , Peter and John arrived , in consequence of what Mary Magdalene had told them . The Apostles left the sepulchre without knowing more than that the body was not there ; f and
vivid description , and more of simple sentiment , there would have been nothing to desire . "
* Vast numbers of Jews , it is well known , came to Jerusalem at the Passover ; and many lodged in the adjoining villages . Bethany was , on various accounts , the place most likely to be chosen by our Lord ' s followers . —See Mark xi . 11 , Luke xxi . 37 . " t « c The words ' saw and believed * ( Jo 7 m xx . 8 ) obviously refer to the report of Mary ( v . 2 ) , that the Lord had been taken away . « For as yet they knew not 'he Scripture , ( adds the Evangelist . ) that he muat rise again from the dead . ' "
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On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives . 659
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 659, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/7/
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