Chapter 38: On the Way to the Cross

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌⁠It was Sunday. Again the throngs surged around the Passion Theatre, more devout, more numerous than ever.

Slowly, as if his feet could scarcely support him, a tall figure, strangely like one who no longer belongs to the number of the living, tottered through the crowd to the door of the dressing-room, while all reverently made way for him, yet every one perceived that it must be the Christus! Whoev