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THE PASSION AND DEATH OF CHRIST 513
THE WAY OF THE CROSS
It was now about ten o'clock on Friday morning. Jesus had had nothing to eat or drink since the Paschal supper the evening before. He had su ered terribly during His agony in the garden, and after that had followed a night of horror. He had been beaten in the house of the high priest, dragged roughly through the streets to Pilate, and scourged and crowned with thorns. He had su ered intense pain and lost a great quantity of blood. The cross weighed heavier and
heavier on His shoulders and several times He stum-