singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands”5). Hebrews 12:2, no doubt mindful of Isaiah’s words, says that Jesus went to the cross in pursuit of joy. Via Laetitia, indeed. When we pan back and consider his life as a whole, it only becomes clearer. The Son of Man grew up in an occupied territory and encountered more injustice, brokenness, demonic oppression, psychological disorder, sickness, sorrow, leprosy, and death in three years than any modern Westerner may in a lifetime.