27 Sept. 1815

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Ch. 114 Crucifixion

P. 148. 149. 150. 151

Time Same day as per last? John XIX 31 Day of the preparation for the sabbath

Place, neighbourhood of Jerusalem

Luke {Simon compelled to bear his cross:} If by reason of the scourging &c. Jesus was […?] strange that it should not have been the business of some officer: making a stranger a foreigner bear it, mob-law

Luke {Women bewailed on[?] him}  See in the Greek whether it was the women only that bewailed him – If yes it will seem that none but that sex were ever deceived by them[?]. ‘Daughters of Jerusalem seems already to prove it

{The days are coming} Even still persevering in his […?] threats

{Father forgive them} Nothing presented a fairer chance of turning the current of the mob in his favour in which case he might perhaps have been taken down from the cross. Execrations[?] would have been of the […?]

{Save himself if he be the chosen of God} Nothing could be more rational. So all the other mocking observations

{Spoken by the prophet they cast lots} One of the quotations, is it Shakespear’s stile. So {He was numbered with the transgressions}

then of these flowers[?] of speech – John is particularly full of them.

{Be with me in paradise} A sort of triumph and enjoyment even in death

{Vinegar to drink} – to allay the thirst of the fever.

{His Mother and his Mother’s Sister} Was this Elizabeth, John Baptists Mother?

John {The disciple whom he loved} Here a sort of adoption. Add this to the other similar inventions of John Apostle. John (Zebedee) had however his own mother present.

Darkness Veil of the Temple rent. Earthquake &c. – All this of a piece with the Stars in the East

Matt XXVII 52 53. Bodies coming out of their graves per Matt alone: omitted in Synopsis

Ch. 114

Crucifixion and death of Jesus – Prodigies that accompanied it

Luke XXIII 26 to 46. Matt. XXVII 32 to 54. Mark XV 21 to 38 John XIX. 17 to 30.