CHAPTER XXVI

JOHN THE LONE DISCIPLE AT THE CROSS

Following the Cross--Jesus Bearing the Cross--Wearing the Thorny
Crown--Great Multitude Following--"Daughters of
Jerusalem"--Calvary--John's Memories--Group of Four Enemies--Seamless
Coat--Casting Lots--Jesus and the Gamblers--Three Marys and Salome--John
their Companion--A Contrast--Other Apostles--John and Salome--A Mother's
Love--Mary's Thoughts--Sword of Anguish--Comfort in Sorrow--Lonely
Future--Loyal Son--New Relation--Mary's Return from the Cross--Why John
Her Guardian--A Poet's Words to John--In the New Home 184


CHAPTER XXVII

JOHN THE LONE DISCIPLE AT THE CROSS--CONTINUED

"I Thirst"--"It Is Finished"--The Bowed Head--The Women and John--His
Anxious Thoughts Relieved--Pierced Side--Two Prophecies--Prayer in
Song--Joseph of Arimathæa--Nicodemus--Two Secret Friends of Jesus--Two
Gardens--The Stone Closing the Tomb--Two Mourners at the Tomb--John's
Thoughts on Leaving the Tomb 195


CHAPTER XXVIII

JOHN AT THE TOMB

John and Mary Magdalene--Mary's Mistaken Inference--Her Report to Peter