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The three Marys at the crucifixion scene: With John the Apostle is Holy
Mary, her cousin (“sister”) Mary of Clopas or Alphaeus (who was Holy Joseph’s older
brother), and Mary Magdalene. A little further away is Martha (the Magdalene’s
sister), Johanna of Chuza, and her Bethlehem shepherd servant Jonathan, Old Eliza,
Anne of Lake Merom, Mary Clopas’ two oldest sons (Joseph and Simon who were not
Apostles), with a group of other Bethlehem shepherds and finally Mary Salome,
Susanna of Cana and Alphaeus of Sarah. A number of other supporters who had
accompanied Jesus to the summit of Calvary have departed. They include Nike,
Sarah, Marcella, and the Roman women Lydia, Valeria and one who was veiled who
was certainly Pilate’s wife Claudia Procula, as the soldiers had taken orders from her.
318. FRI, 12 1PM Jesus Must Reject the Drink [from Johanna] for His Relief.
Mt 27:34, 37-38 Mk 15:23,25*-28 Lk23:33 Jn19:18
604/p.606
Jesus, while waiting crucifixion, is offered but rejects the drink with myrrh.
The drink is somewhat of an anesthetic and is given to the centurion Longinus by
Johanna of Chuza for Jesus’ relief. The victims are ordered to undress and put on the
criminal rag. Mary now gives Longinus the centurion her veil so Jesus can cover
Himself. Jesus positions Himself on the cross. His right arm is nailed to the cross into
the predrilled hole through the wrist, not through the palm as commonly thought. The
hole for the nail to hold the left arm, however, was beyond the wrist area. The
executioners pull the left arm to force a fit and pull his arms out of their sockets,
dislocating his arms and shoulders. [This fulfilled Psalm 22:14 (21:15 Douay).] Still
not being successful, they end up nailing the left arm through the palm. This is far
more painful. The lifting of the cross, its final drop into the hole, and its tipping and
swaying movements which tossed the impaled victim in every direction until the cross
was stabilized, is an almost unbearable scene. Jesus is crucified with two thieves.
[NOTE: That the executioners would have nailed through the wrists would have been
understood by very few until very recently. What The Poem reveals is exactly what
the Shroud of Turin reveals about the position of the nail in right arm. The Shroud
clearly shows the right arm puncture in the wrist, not the palm. The location of the
puncture on the left arm is obscured by the position of the right hand over it. The
misleading rendition of John 20:27, where Jesus tells the doubting Thomas, “see My
hands,” has perpetuated the popular but false notion that crucifixion involved the
piercing of the palms of the hands. The Greek word “cheir” included the wrist.]
*[NOTE: Mark’s reference to Christ’s crucifixion at the third hour speaks of Jesus’
trial before Pilate at 9 AM which sealed His fate.]
604/p.593 - The Way of the Cross from the Praetorium to Calvary. (Gospel Episodes
311. to 318.)
320. FRI, 1-2PM Come Down from the Cross and Save Yourself.
Mt 27:39 44 Mk 15:29 32 Lk 23:35 38 ---- 605a/p.611
Now the insults, indecent comments and gestures from the maddened
religious rulers are hurled at not only Jesus but against the Holy Mother. “Come
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down from the cross and save yourself.” The mockery of the soldiers, however, while
showing an indifference to Jesus, is a verbal show of their contempt for the crowd, the
Judeans in particular. Picking up from their mockery, “Come down and save
Yourself,” they tell Jesus, “So save Yourself! Burn to ashes this suburra of the
suburra! Do so! Rome will . . . worship You as god!” When the rulers come over to
Mary Magdalene and threaten to get Lazarus, she faces them boldly, and verbally puts
them in their place. Suddenly, feeling the points of Roman lances in their rears, they
run off like frightened roosters. Matthew’s reference to both thieves reproaching
Jesus and cursing took place when they were being hung on their crosses. (See V,
p.607.)
605a/p.605 - The Crucifixion. (Gospel Episodes 319. to 320., 322.to 336.)
324. FRI, 2-3 PM Remember Me when Thou Comest into Thy Kingdom.
---- ---- Lk 23:42,43 ---- 605a/p.614
. . . “Lord, remember me when you are in your kingdom.” Jesus responds
with a tortured smile, “I tell you: today you will be with Me in Paradise!” [NOTE:
Paradise is not heaven, because Jesus did not go to heaven until after the Resurrection.
(See Jn 20:17 at 346.) Paradise, at this time, was a place for the righteous waiting for
Heaven to be opened, and for some of these it was a place of preparation and purging
in anticipation of that day.]
325. FRI, 2 -3PM Holy Mary is Given to John and the Church.
---- ---- ---- Jn 19:26,27 605a/p.616
Jesus speaks to Mary concerning John: “Woman, this is your son.” To
John He says, “Son, this is your Mother.”
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[NOTE: Jesus does not say, “Mary,” or “Mother, this is your son,” because at this
point Mary His Mother is “The Woman” of Genesis 3 and Revelation 12, the “Second
Eve.” Jesus is thus giving to the New Eve the entire human family to mother,
especially true spiritual sons, of whom John was merely the first.]
[NOTE: This also is further evidence that Mary had no other children than Jesus.
If she had other children they would be legally required to care for Her. Certainly, if
any of the four “brothers” of Jesus had been Her sons, they would have been given
this responsibility, particularly when two of them (Judas Thaddaeus and James) had
become Apostles.] Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea now appear at the site of the
Crucifixion.
326. FRI, 2-3 PM My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Mt 27:46,47 Mk 15:34,35 ---- ---- 605a/p.618
Jesus shouts in a loud but tortured voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lamma scebacteni!”
328. FRI, 2-3 PM Jesus Drinks the Painful Offering of Love from a Pagan
Soldier.
Mt 27:48,49 Mk 15:36 ---- Jn 19:29,30a 605a/p.619
A soldier gives Jesus vinegar. He drinks, because a refusal would be
considered rejection of a gift of love from a pagan (see chapter 623/p.745, 746), but
the drink, intended to increase salivation, only stings his bleeding lips and mouth. It
is the act of love, however, from this pagan that Jesus so deeply appreciates.
Longinus and the soldiers who hear the pitiful, almost delirious exchanges between
Jesus and His Mother are deeply moved.
332. FRI, 3 PM> The Temple Veil is Rent. Many Saints Rise from the Dead.
Mt 27:51 53 Mk 15:38 Lk 23:45b ---- 605a/p.621,
624
Immediately, lightning begins to crack across the blackened sky, sending
down volleys of thunderous, striking bolts. Then there descends upon the city a
cyclonic whirlwind and a violent earthquake, all of which strike the city three times.
The Temple is so shaken that its massive door is thrown off its hinges and the Veil of
the temple is rent from top to bottom. Many sepulchers are opened and there are
those who swore they see skeletons, taking human appearances, coming out of them
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and going about accusing and condemning those who are guilty of the deicide. Many
die in the quake (V,p.765). Lazarus reports that several houses were set on fire(V,
p.902). John reports several houses of the rulers of Israel set on fire (V, p. 782) and
that the house of Helkai was completely destroyed (V, p. 643). The High Priest’s
house, behind the city wall, is also struck by lightning and catches fire. Naham, father
of Annas, the High Priest is stricken with insanity and his unnamed son is killed by a
falling wall (V, p. 767). (See 610/p.676 for the shepherd Isaac’s incredible testimony
to the rent TempleVeil.)
334. FRI, 4-5 PM Joseph of Arimathea Asks for the Body of Jesus.
Mt 27:57,58 Mk 15:42 45 Lk 23:50 52 Jn 19:38 605a/p.624
Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea are on their way to meet with the
Proconsul to obtain the body of Jesus and a release from the order to break His legs
when they meet Gamaliel coming from the city, utterly terrorized having seen the
Temple shaken and desecrated and the people of the city going mad with fear. They
remember the sign given at the Temple that Jesus had promised Gamaliel, “These
stones will shudder at My last words!”
336. FRI, 4-5 PM The Jews Ask for Jesus’ Legs to be broken.
---- ---- ---- Jn 19:31 33 605a/p.626
To desecrate Jesus’ body, the Jews ask for the legs to be broken, but they
are denied because permission for exclusion was obtained from Pilate through the
intercession of Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. Nicodemus and Joseph of
Arimathea have also been given the body of Jesus. As the body is removed, the left
arm falls without the removal of the large headed nail, showing what is now
recognized, that the palm cannot support any real weight and thus tore away from the
nail. (See Note at 314.)
605a/p.605 - The Crucifixion. (Gospel Episodes 319. to 320.; 322. to 336.)
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337. FRI, 4-5 PM Joseph of Arimathea Gives his New Garden Tomb for Jesus.
Mt 27:59,60a Mk 15:46a,b Lk 23:53,54 Jn 19:40 42 606a/p.628
Jesus is wrapped in a linen cloth and carried down from the hill of
Golgotha by John, Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. Following them are the
women disciples who are with Holy Mary, Mary Magdalene, Martha, and the women
of Galilee: Mary of Alphaeus, Mary Salome of Zebedee and Susanna. They have
picked up the nails, the tongs, the crown, the sponge and the cane. Jesus is buried in
Joseph of Arimathea’s new garden tomb.
606a/p.628 - The Burial of Jesus and the Spiritual Distress of Mary
340. FRI eve The Chief Priests Ask for the Tomb to be Sealed and Guarded.
(Sabbath) Mt 27:62 66 ---- Lk 23:56a ---- 607/p.641
The Pharisees come to seal the tomb and set a watch. The Sorrowful
Mother is able to detach Herself from the Tomb only when She realizes She must go
back and look for the Apostles, all the others, and especially Judas and say to him,
“He forgives you,” because “he is the biggest sinner.” Thus Mary Magdalene and the
other women disciples are able to return, with Joseph and Nicodemus, to the “Supper
Room” house with the Sorrowful Mother.
607/p.638 - The Return to the Supper Room.
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