Jesus is ridiculed by everyone present during his Passion—the crowds cried "Crucify him!" before Pilate, the soldiers beat and mocked him, people who passed by hurled their insults at him, the religious leaders mocked him, and even the criminals who were dying beside him threw in their own ridicule of him. Jesus faced the cruelty and the humiliation of the cross alone. His own closest followers had betrayed, denied, and abandoned him. He does it, so you and I can have the confidence that he will never abandon us—even if everyone we hold dear abandons us and those who hate us hurl insults at us. Jesus demonstrates he will pay any price to love us. What a friend! What a King! What a Savior!