Christ willingly stretches himself down on the cross.
Surprised, one of the soldiers observes: “Behold, himself has laid him down,/and bent his back unto this tree.”
From one of the first web pages I created, for an academic article about a computer simulation of the epic medieval Christian pageant the York Corpus Christi Cycle. The tiny, grainy video clips were cutting-edge multimedia back in 1997. via York Crucifixion of Christ (Toronto, 1977) 2 of 4.