Someone said: "It is a simple thing to say that Christ died for the sins of the world. It is quite another thing to say that we can be as indifferent as Pilate, as scheming as Caiaphas, as callour as the soldiers, as ruthless as the mob, or as cowardly as the sidciples. It wasn't just what they did - it was I who nailed Him to the tree. I crucified the Christ of God. I joined the mockery."
The cross of Christ reveals the love of God at its best and the sin of the world at its worst.
Rembrandt's painting of The Three Crosses:
http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/rmbrndt_etchings/etchings_h/iv.htm
the crowd gather around the foot of that cross... the various facial expressions and actions of the people invovled in the awful frime of crucifying the Son of God...
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