Is This Cup of Hemlock a Cup of Sorrow?

"It's ludicrous to suppose that jesus, whose moral and physical courage has never for one moment wavered, is now afraid of pain and insult," he says. "I tell you no. All the evidence of his former life and character is against it." The cup from which Jesus was shrinking 'was something different,' writes Koontz. It was neither the physical pain or torture crucifixion, nor the mental anguish of being abandoned by friend and foe,. but the spiritual pain of bearing in his own innocent person the sins of the world and the divine judgment upon those sins.