Note 33 — Notes on the Woodcuts.

We now come to the Crucifixion, and there was a lack of wood to make Christ’s cross—when, suddenly, from the depths of Bethesda, leaped up the tree of the Cross, and floated gently to land. One ran to the High Priest,33 and told him of the timely find of suitable wood, and he at once gave orders for it to be fashioned into a Cross.34 Then comes the mournful procession to Calvary, with our Saviour fainting under the weight of the Cross, and Simon the Cyrenean is pressed into the service to help Jesus.35 And then the Crucifixion.36