Let us do as the Egyptian here--let us hold our peace and pray." As he looked up on the knoll again, the words were wafted to him through the awful stillness-- "I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE." He bowed reverently as to a person speaking.
Up on the summit meantime the work went on.

The guard took the Nazarene's clothes from him; so that he stood before the millions naked.

The stripes of the scourging he had received in the early morning were still bloody upon his back; yet he was laid pitilessly down, and stretched upon the cross--first, the arms upon the transverse beam; the spikes were sharp--a few blows, and they were driven through the tender palms; next, they drew his knees up until the soles of the feet rested flat upon the tree; then they placed one foot upon the other, and one spike fixed both of them fast.

The dulled sound of the hammering was heard outside the guarded space; and such as could not hear, yet saw the hammer as it fell, shivered with fear.

And withal not a groan, or cry, or word of remonstrance from the sufferer: nothing at which an enemy could laugh; nothing a lover could regret.
"Which way wilt thou have him faced ?" asked a soldier, bluntly.
"Towards the Temple," the pontiff replied.