This essay is taken from Christ and the Fine Arts by Cynthia Pearl Maus (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938), 356-7.
(A footnote indicates that this essay was "adapted from The Gospel in Art, by Edward Albery Bailey" and used "by permission of the author.")
Preaching Relevance
This powerful painting may creatively be used as an object from which to preach a sermon on John 19:1-16. With the help of Maus' interpretative notes, imaginatively get your audience to place themselves in the picture (just as Ciseri himself did) and, with the text of Scriptures, provoke them to reflect on what the event might mean for them.