Christ the Greatest Hero in Battle

“Do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” // *) Anyone whose very marrow and bone are not pierced by these words The German idiom "Mark und Bein durchdringen" suggests a feeling that reaches one's absolute core or deepest soul. must possess a heart like that of Judas. Yet here, the pen falters. It is just as impossible to depict the crime of the wicked as it is the divine character of the virtuous in their full magnitude during this scene. Here, one’s own feeling must complete what the pen leaves unfinished.

Jesus Forgives Peter.

“You will all desert me this night, and it will come to pass as that passage of Scripture reads: I will strike the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered; but when I rise again, I will go before you into Galilee.” // **) With these words, Jesus foretells to His disciples what they will

*) Matthew 26:50; Luke 22:48.
**) Matthew 26:31.