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LXXVII. JESUS IS LAID IN THE SEPULCHRE.
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Fig. 92. Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. (Phot. Dr. Trenkler & Co., Leipzig.)

this they laid the Body of Jesus, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre (Fig. 92)[1].


  1. The sepulchre, or cave in the rock, was about fifty paces from the spot of the Crucifixion. It was hewn out of the solid rock, and consisted of an outer cave,