Jews should extend thy venerable hands and feet with a robe, and cruelly fasten thee to the wood of the cross with iron nails, and should call thee a betrayer; and writing a title of confusion above thee, should in manifold ways deride thee with their horrid words.
Eternal praise and thanksgiving be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst so meekly endure such cruel pains for us; for when thy blessed body lost all its strength on the cross, thy blessed eyes were darkened, thy beautiful face, from loss of blood, was all overspread with pallor, thy blessed tongue was parched and dried up, and thy mouth was moistened by a most bitter draught. Thy hair and beard were filled with blood, from the wounds of thy most sacred head. The bones of thy hands and feet, and of all thy precious body, were rent from their places, not without great and intense grief to thee, the veins and nerves of all thy blessed body were cruelly broken. And thus thou wast inhumanly scourged and wounded with grievous wounds, that thy most innocent skin and flesh were intolerably torn. And thus afflicted and tortured, thou didst hang on the cross, O my most sweet Jesus, and in excessive pain, didst patiently and humbly await the hour of death.
