In 1909 William M. Clow, a notable Scottish preacher, published a volume of sermons under the title The Day of the Cross (London: Hodder and Stoughton). The organizing theme of these pulpit utterances was to see the personalities of the Passion as providing a window of access to the mind of the Lord himself. Modern study of the gospels has strikingly endorsed this purpose. The men and women who appear on the stage, and even those who have “speaking parts” to play