The taunting and mockery; the whippings and beatings; carrying the cross and our sins with it. What could be worse? How about being abandoned and forsaken by his Father!
The Bible contains an Upper Story and Lower Story. The Upper Story tells the big picture, the grand narrative of God unfolding throughout history. The Lower Story contains the sometimes delightful, other times appalling particulars of human experience. But make no mistake about it – Jesus is the star and hero of the Story!