Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 44
? 44 dreadful pass of death’ that all others of human kind must go through… (p. 70) He concludes his book with these words (pp. 77–78): … I must repeat that we do not know [where he died]. It may be that after preaching to the lost tribes of the House of Israel in those remote regions, Jesus died at Srinagar, and was buried in the tomb that now bears his name. It may be that he never left his Galilean refuge, but suffered a lingering death from his wounds at his lonely camp fire by the Tiberian Lake, or on some solitary mountain summit, or in some secluded valley, and that ‘no man knoweth of His sepulchre until this day. ’ We do not know; and per- haps it is as well that we do not. The Church has, at least, been preserved from relic worship of his bones; and to His unknown resting place we may address the closing lines of Mrs. Alexander’s beautiful poem on the Burial of Moses: ‘Oh lonely tomb! … Speak to these curious hearts of ours And teach them to be still, God hath His mysteries of Grace, Ways that we cannot tell; He hides them deep, like the secret sleep Of him He loves so well. ’