We have often  contemplated  the suffering and death of Jesus Christ through the Seven Last Words. But did we ever stop to think just how truly, physically painful it must have been for Him to be whipped, crowned with thorns, bear the cross, and have iron spikes driven into our hands and feet?

The word “excruciating” comes from the Latin, excruciatus, or “out of the cross.” In every true sense, Jesus’s death was that, and so much more.

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