"For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

Lay Dominicans of Dallas & Fort Worth | Southern Province ~ St. Martin de Porres
"For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"
It was common for the Roman soldiers to humiliate the condemned. They would often pick out a victim from among those sentenced to death and mock and abuse them. Think about the psychology here. No compassion, no empathy.
As a child, the Agony in the Garden held a special mystery. If Jesus is God, and God knows everything, and is all-powerful, then what was he worried about?
When we think of mystery in the context of religion, we generally have a different experience. We hear or read something that we don’t understand, and when we ask about it, all too often we are told, “Well, it’s a mystery.”