... that Friday so long? There was a death that Friday. It was the death of an innocent. In his hymn, Johann Heerman, the seventeenth-century German pastor, asks, "Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended?"1 Heerman could tell the difference ... is shrouded in darkness and shadows. It is a dark death to which the Lord advances. But, look, the top of the hill is starkly outlined against brightness beyond! There is a suggestion of bright mountain peaks and trees behind Golgotha; the path seems to wind its way above ...
