An impressive picture of Calvary can be seen in the National Gallery in London. Christ is on the cross, almost hidden in the darkness. At first the one who looks observes nothing in the blackness and through it in the dim figure of the suffering Christ. But if his gaze does not falter, he glimpses a figure with arms outstretched, tenderly holding up the suffering one. His face is twisted by a pain which is more agonizing even than that of Christ. God the Father is grieving with his Son as he hangs on the cross.
G. Ernest Thomas[1]
[1] Charles L. Wallis, Lenten-Easter Sourcebook (New York: Abingdon Press, 1961), 123.