Adorned INRI with crown of thorn
Beset by murderers and thieves
Christ draped along the cross
Dying for mercy received
Elect amongst all mortal kin
Forgiven all this mortal sin
Giving way his self and son
Holy spirit makes three one
Iēsous by Josephus’ pen
Jesus by quarternit’s end
Killed by Rome for his sedition
Laughed at and endured derision
Mystery of man and god
No one there then yet had known
Opened up he was not found
Peter denied him hid by stone
Quakes beneath his dying breath
Recited psalm or truth instead
Savior still in either case
Truth is found in lieu of haste
Unfortunate but prophesied
Violated promised seed
Wanton gawkers thus afraid
Xenophobic toward divine
Yet soon arisen from where laid
Zero hour of third day’s time