A Way With Words

I recently read a scripture as part of a caption to a painting. The scripture went: "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
"And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again" (Mark 10:33-34).

Read straight forward it had power. But when read as a poem, watch how t...