Women play the central role as eyewitness at Jesus’ death, entombment as well as in the discovery of the empty tomb.
He suffered death and was buried
The entombment of Christ is one of several standard representations of Jesus’s suffering and death at the hands of the Romans. According to the Christian tradition Pontius Pilate granted Joseph of Arimathea permission to take Christ’s body down from the cross for burial. In addition, the gospel according to John...
A Spotless Rose
“This Flow’r whose fragrance tender With sweetness fills the air, Dispels with glorious splendor The darkness ev’rywhere. True Man, yet very God; From sin and death He saves us And lightens ev’ry load.”
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