The Disciples watch from afar

Saint Luke - Chapter 23

The Disciples watch from afar. J-J Tissot

[49] Stabant autem omnes noti ejus a longe, et mulieres, quae secutae eum erant a Galilaea, haec videntes.
And all his acquaintance, and the women that had followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.

From The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by J-J Tissot (1897)

The time wears on, the hours of this fateful Friday pass slowly by, in suffering for Jesus, in anxiety four His disciples.  After their first moment of terror they have come forth from their hiding place in the tombs Hinnom.  They climb up the Valley of Gihon and cautiously advance under cover of the walls of Herod's Palace and can see the crowd surrounding Golgotha.  Step by step they creep along, deeply moved by what they rightly imagine to be going on.  By skirting along the height on the northwest of the town, they can look on from a distance and the gradual development of the mighty drama of the Cross.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam