g j g ar m f in with this particular that the coat of the ih high priest was of kind vii the view the has b� en already in the p f op is dependent on the manner in wliich each interpreted that supposed prophecy in the the less does a sure knowledge appear to have had any share in their representation and hence we remain ignorant were cast on the distribution of the clothes of nay whether in general a distribution of clothes took place the cross of confidently as appeals in support of this very particular to the acts of lie had never seen of the conduct of the jews who were present at the of john tells us nothing represents the people as standing to look on and only the rulers nod the soldiers as by the summons to save himself if he were the to which the latter adds the offer of the v ff and mark have nothing here of mockery on part of the soldiers but in compensation they make not only the chief priests and elders but also the vent v ff ff expressions of these i e partly refer to former and actions of thus the sarcasm thou that destroy est the temple and it again in three days save and mark is an allusion to the words of that tenor ascribed to while the reproach he saved others himself he cannot save or save in all ee to his partly however the conduct of the jews towards on the cross is depicted after the same of which says that it contains when it is said in and and they that passed by him their and saying ol je i l mi says of the they him i ov this is certainly nothing else than a mere o of what stands in xxii all that see me laugh me to scorn they shoot out the lip and the head ol i iv and the words which are lent to the in in god let him deliver him now if he will have him m t iv el are the same with those of the following verse in that trusted in the that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him i now the and shaking ot the head on the part of the enemies of may notwithstanding that the description of them is drawn according to the above old testament passage still very probably have really happened it is quite otherwise with the which are attributed to these words which like those above quoted are in the old testament put into the mouth of the enemies of the could not be adopted by the without their voluntarily i so f ot th� ufe of je u tlie of the which they would surely have taken cure to avoid only the christian legend if it once tlie to the of and especially to his last hours attribute these words to the sh rulers and find the fulfilment of a prophecy the first do not tell us that any one of the twelve was present at the of they merely several women three of whom they namely mar the of james the less ami of and as the third according to the mother of the sons of according to mark both are commonly understood to relate to the same person v f mark v f according to these the twelve not yet to have after their flight on the arrest of in on the contrary among all hu acquaintance ol whom he represents as beholding the v the twelve would seem to be included but tl c fourth gospel expressly out from among the the one ir loved i e john as present and among the women together with mary and the wife of as names instead of the of james and john the mother of himself moreover while according to all the other accounts acquaintances of stood off according to the john tlie mother ol have been in the i to the cross since it represents as addressing them from the cross and to be his substitute in the relation to his mother v believes th� it he can remove the contradiction which exists between the s statement and of the th gospel as to the position of the of by the conjecture that at first they did indeed stand at a distance but that some a near to the cross it is to be observed however in opposition to this that the mention that position of the of just at the close of the scene of and death before the taking down from the and thus that had this until the end of the scene a state of tlie case which but be held entirely consistent with the wliich filled the minds of the during those days and still more with feminine timidity if tlie heroism of a nearer approach might perhaps be ex from maternal tenderness still the total silence of as of the common tradition renders reality of that particular doubtful the cannot have known any thing of the presence of the of at the cross otherwise they would have mentioned her as the chief person before all the other women j any thing appear to have been go and even speaks of u l oa the part e au the of je u known of a more intimate relation between her at least in the acts i f the mother of is supposed to be with the twelve in general his brothers and the women of the society it is at least not so easy to understand how the memory of that affecting presence and remarkable relation could be lost as to conceive how the idea of them might in the circle from which the fourth if this circle be imagined as one in the john enjoyed peculiar veneration on which account our 