Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 54
? 54 the crevices, illuminating the red mists of the morning. (p. 77) This was indeed, a dreadful night. Beasts, horrified by the earthquake, ran howling and crying in every direction … the servants of the high-priest were full of fear, listening to the hissing in the air and the roaring and rumbling in the earth. (p. 77) One of our brethren went to the grave, in obedience to the order of the Brotherhood, dressed in the white robe of the fourth degree. He went by way of a secret path which ran through the mountain to the grave, and which was known only to the Order. (p. 77–78) When the timid servants of the high priest saw the white-robed Brother on the mountain slowly approach- ing, and partially obscured by the morning mist, they were seized with a great fear, and they thought that an angel was descending from the mountain. When this Brother arrived at the grave which he was to guard, he rested on the stone which he had pulled from the entrance according to his orders; whereupon the sol- diers fled and spread the report that an angel had driven them away. (p. 78) Inside the Sepulchre The author next records what was going on inside the grave where they had consigned the body of Jesus.