But remember, at the foot of Jesus’s cross no one seemed very sorry. There was no justice at His “trial”—if you could even call it that. A perverse glee filled the faces of the people who demanded His death: “‘Crucify him!’ they shouted” (Mark 15:13). Furthermore, “those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, ‘So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!’” (Mark 15:29–30). They shouted, “Let this Christ, this King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe” (Mark
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