The master over death surrendered to death

Ben-Hur's confidence rested most certainly upon the miraculous power of the Christ.

Pondering the subject in the purely human view, that the master of such authority over life and death, used so frequently for the good of others, would not exert it in care of himself was simply as much past belief as it was past understanding.

Source: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace