Jesus just tasted the vinegar, and said, It is finished! and then he died. His spirit went to his Father, but his body hung upon the cross.
It was three o’clock in the afternoon when Jesus died. He had been nailed to the cross all the day. Before Jesus died, God had made it very dark, to show he was angry with the wicked people. And God made the earth shake, and the people were frightened; and when Jesus was dead, some of them said, This must have been the Son of God.
Mary beholds one dying there,
Whom in her arms she once did bear,
And to her bosom press.
On her he casts his pitying eye,
For who should now his place supply,
And cheer her loneliness?
The loving John shall be her son,
And cherish her till life is done,