So Jesus also suffered outside the gate.
Renaissance painters portray
The Crucifixion
As an epic event: high hill, isolated.
A mountaintop experience.
When I saw a more realistic illustration,
I was shocked by the scale.
The small rise of the Place of the Skull
Was close to the wall, the gate;
A road ran right at the base.
It was so exposed.
It looked like: if Whole Foods was the city,
The Crucifixion
Would be on a mound in the parking lot,
With traffic circling this
Very human-scale experience.
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