Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 140
? 140 Where Jesus really died, they (the Disciples) never knew, and so they came to describe his departure as an ascension. 1 Likewise, Ernest Brougham Docker, District Court Judge, Sydney, says: If Jesus did not die upon the cross, how, where and when did he withdraw from this earthly stage? We must admit that we have no evidence to enable us to answer. For myself, I am content to believe that, being man, he passed through the same gate. ‘The strait and dreadful passage of death that all others of human kind must go through. ’ It may be that Jesus never left his Galilean refuge, but suffered a lin- gering 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’. 2 Those who, in the light of the facts and reason, deny Jesus’ death on the cross, and his soaring to Heaven, believe in his natural death, but cannot say when and where. In modern times, when thinking people of Europe, due to their inability to trace his burial place began to take the whole story of his life for a myth, a voice arose from the heart of India in the clos- ing years of the last century, from Qadian—an unknown village then, but now a flourishing centre of Islamic revival—proclaiming 1. Dr. Schweitzer. The Quest of the Historical Jesus, p. 55. 2. Docker: If Jesus did not Die upon the Cross? pp. 70 and 78.