Taking Jesus down from the cross would have been the work of more than one person.
The spot where it stood was east from the present cross.
When the light from his cross died away, we stood there in the darkness.
Jesus looked down from the cross to see his mother standing nearby.
With the money from the cross, she would be able to get to Switzerland and freedom.
The relief above the door shows Jesus being taken down from the cross.
"Christ did not come down from the cross," he said, by several accounts.
Though it was for your own ends that you took me down from the cross.
Your crew will hang from crosses, as I promised you.
Every sound from the cross was like a hot iron driven in my spine.