and his zeal for justice. This justice was fulfilled on the cross, when Christ became a sin-bearer for us: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed” (1 Pet. 2:24). It was fitting, then, that darkness accompanied the last hours of the crucifixion: “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour” (Matt. 27:45). An earthquake accompanied Christ’s death: “And behold, the