However, Jesus healed and raised people from the dead to show that suffering and death will not have the last word, so much so that St. Paul will one day say, “Death is swallowed up in victory.
If someone is suffering, we are all suffering because we are each an equal part of the body. We cannot live into the fullness ...
How many times are their pomps and their lofty words nothing but grandiose ... It is because Jesus is mocked and wears the crown of suffering that he appears as the true King.