| Jesus experienced hours of limitless pain, 
                cycles of twisting, joint-rending cramps, intermittent partial 
                asphyxiation, searing pain where tissue is torn from His lacerated 
                back as He moves up and down against the rough timber. Then another 
                agony begins -- a terrible crushing pain deep in the chest as 
                the pericardium slowly fills with serum and begins to compress 
                the heart.  |