An excellent video, not quite eight minutes long, about how the judicial murder of Jesus was carried out. It’s tough, but the presentation isn’t gruesome or gratuitously shocking, and, in my judgment, it’s very useful for helping us to understand a little better the magnitude of the Savior’s suffering and the extent, therefore, of his love for us. Highly appropriate for Easter.
In that context — and prompted by what the narrator says at about 6:30 in the video — I share again a quotation from the De incarnatione of St. Athanasius of Alexandria (d. AD 373) that I posted a few days ago:
“He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He should seem to be afraid of some other kind. No. He accepted and bore upon the cross a death inflicted by others, and those other His special enemies, a death which to them was supremely terrible and by no means to be faced; and He did this in order that, by destroying even this death, He might Himself be believed to be the Life, and the power of death be recognised as finally annulled. A marvellous and mighty paradox has thus occurred, for the death which they thought to inflict on Him as dishonour and disgrace has become the glorious monument to death’s defeat.”
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