unchanging nature in this regard.) Indeed, while the Son laments as he dies, subtle clues in the text suggest that the Father simultaneously mourns the death of the Son. ‘As “Rachel” weeps at the slaughter of her children in Bethlehem, so God himself seems to mourn at the death of Jesus, ripping the curtain of the Temple from top to bottom as human mourners rip their clothes in a gesture of grief’.55 (In this regard, the suffering God theologians properly emphasize God’s personal involvement in human