The suffering of Jesus and Others (Palm/Passon A) (Matthew 26: 14--27:66)
Matthew's writing is terse. This hasn't stopped some from imagining grimmer details.
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My childhood babysitters were from Albania and Vietnam, Ethiopia and Yugoslavia. The Albanians were young men, energetic and capable, ready to play and eager to please. The Ethiopians were in families, proud of their sparse apartments and adept at finding places where coffee could be brewed over an open fire away from smoke detectors. The Hmong were quiet, more proficient in English but less likely to speak. All of them bore scars, if not on their bodies than on their hearts and minds. But none of them ever talked about it, at least not to me.
