They crucified our Lord.

Our crosses today are silver and gold, antiseptic and shiny, a symbol of triumph.

Not so on that day.

The cross was the ultimate execution rack. It's purpose was simple - to bring as much pain and as much shame as possible upon the victim - and upon each witness.

Could you bear to be a witness?

They made him walk through Jerusalem's main streets, carrying the cross-beam of the cross. His face streamed blood from the twisted bramble of thorns jammed on his head and tearing his scalp. A crown they called it, all the more to mock him. Bent by the weight of this timber, he looks like no king, "his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance."

As he stumbles up the steep streets, a soldier marches before him announcing his crime to the merchants and shoppers.…