Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 43
Chapter Three—The Story of the Resurrection 43 likely place to send to for the clothes in the emergency. As soon as Jesus was sufficiently recovered, he would be removed from the tomb to the cottage till he could be con- veyed to a place of safety. So he would probably be within the precincts of the garden when Mary Magdalene and the other woman came early in the morning. They receive a message perhaps from the gardener or his assistant (after- wards converted by the growth of legend into an angel or two) telling them of the rising and his intention to return to Galilee. They would also have opportunity for seeing Him themselves—being known as his friends. (pp. 32–33) The author goes on: … and if a solitary individual here and there ventured to raise his voice in dissent (to what the majority believed, namely, that Jesus did die upon the cross) it was drowned in the shouting of the multitude. There have even been periods in the history of the Church when such a person would run a grave risk of being roasted to death, not as a martyr, but as a heretic. (pp. 34–35) The author then discusses whether Jesus went to Galilee whence he went to Damascus and appeared to St. Paul, after which he pro- ceeded towards Babylon on his way to the East. Finally the author expresses his own belief in these words: For myself, I am content to believe that being man, he passed through the same gate—‘The strait and