Lenten Comics day 32

STATION TEN

Jesus is Crucified

As I was contemplating this passage, I couldn’t help but juxtapose it with all the scenes in which Jesus is offering hope to so many people in his ministry. His smiling, understanding, knowing face before the crowd, before the humiliated and the suffering. That is the face that was condemned and put on the cross. The face of holy and supernatural love.

“And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes among themselves by casting lots; then they sat down there and kept watch over him.”

-Matthew 27:33-36 (NRSV)