Clearly, it would have greatly pained God, who is the embodiment of compassion and empathy, to see his son be crushed and suffer torture and execution as a blasphemer at the hands of the Roman government and the Jewish religious leaders.
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Clearly, it would have greatly pained God, who is the embodiment of compassion and empathy, to see his son be crushed and suffer torture and execution as a blasphemer at the hands of the Roman government and the Jewish religious leaders.