Jack of Harts

Two thousand years ago, the leaders of Jerusalem arrested Jesus for numerous and sundry crimes against the people, the priests, and their God. They sent him to the Romans for justice and demanded that they crucify him. They filled the crowds with people paid to call for his head, and they watched the Romans whip him up and down the streets. They watched as he carried the cross he was to be executed on until even his toned, carpenter’s body was no longer able to carry it, and another was dragged from the crowd to take it the rest of the way to Golgotha. There they hammered stakes through his wrists and feet to pin him to the cross. There they lifted the cross and dropped it into a hole with him hanging from it. There they pierced his side with a spear. The ground quaked and day turned to night for three hours. It was the day that Jesus died.