The Crucifixion

187:6.1In the midst of the dark­ness of the sand­storm, about half past three o’clock, David Zeb­e­dee sent out the last of the mes­sen­gers car­ry­ing the news of the Mas­ter’s death. The last of his run­ners he dis­patched to the home of Martha and Mary in Beth­any, where he sup­posed the mother of Je­sus stopped with the rest of her fam­ily.

187:6.2Af­ter the death of the Mas­ter, John sent the women, in charge of Jude, to the home of Eli­jah Mark, where they tar­ried over the Sab­bath day. John him­self, be­ing well known by this time to the Ro­man cen­tu­rion, re­mained at Gol­go­tha un­til Joseph and Nicode­mus ar­rived on the scene with an or­der from Pi­late au­tho­riz­ing them to take pos­ses­sion of the body of Je­sus.

187:6.3Thus ended a day of tragedy and sor­row for a vast uni­verse whose myr­i­ads of in­tel­li­gences had shud­dered at the shock­ing spec­ta­cle of the cru­ci­fix­ion of the hu­man in­car­na­tion of their beloved Sov­er­eign; they were stunned by this ex­hi­bi­tion of mor­tal cal­lous­ness and hu­man per­ver­sity.