blood-thirsty mob, yet superior to it because He was living in God.

FOOTNOTES:

[24] See note to chapter xviii.

[25] The cry according to the best reading was simply "Crucify,
crucify," or as it might be rendered, "The cross, the cross."

[26] Philo, _Ad Caium_, c. 38.

[27] Mark xv. 12.

XX.

_MARY AT THE CROSS._

"They took Jesus therefore: and He went out, bearing the cross for
Himself, unto the place called The place of a skull, which is called
in Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucified Him, and with Him two
others, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote
a title also, and put it on the cross. And there was written, JESUS
OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title therefore read many of
the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the
city: and it was written in Hebrew, and in Latin, and in Greek. The
chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Write not, The
King of the Jews; but, that He said, I am King of the Jews. Pilate
answered, What I have written I have written. The soldiers
therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, and
made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat: now the
coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said
therefore one to another, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it,
whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled, which
saith, They parted My garments among them, And upon My vesture did
they cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. But there
were standing by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's
sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus
therefore saw His mother, and the disciple standing by, whom He
loved, He saith unto His mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith
He to the disciple, Behold, thy mother! And from that hour the
disciple took her unto his own home."--JOHN xix. 17-27.

If we ask on what charge our Lord was condemned to die, the answer must
be complex, not simple. Pilate indeed, in accordance with the usual
custom, painted on a board the name and crime of the Prisoner, that all
who could understand any of the three current languages might know who
this was and why He was crucified. But in the case of Jesus the
inscription was merely a ghastly jest on Pilate's part. It was the
coarse retaliation of a proud man