It is a thing most wonderful. ( Isaiah 53 )

Most of the pictures of Jesus on the cross show a sanitized Jesus,with hardly a mark on Him, in spite of   the fact that he had been brutalized,battered and beaten,nearly flogged to death, He wore. a crown made up of large thrones on his head.He would have been an awful sight to behold. Isaiah wrote of his suffering in Isaiah 52 v 14,'His appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and His form marred beyond human likeness'. Of course it didn't stop there , for on that cross He bore the punishment for our sins,the wrath of God that was our due was laid upon Him, if we had been at the cross,we would only have seen part of what He suffered.What great suffering ,what great love, William W. How wrote the following.

                                                         

                                                        'I sometimes think about the cross,

                                                        And shut my eyes,and try and see

                                                        The cruel nails and crown of thorns

                                                        And Jesus crucified for me.

                                                        But even could I see Him die,

                                                        I could but see a little part

                                                        Of that great love, which like a fire,

                                                        Is always burning in His heart.