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The physical pain was attributed to tortured applied to by the impious and wicked person that we see in the nearness of Jesus in the painting. The man on the left of Christ, who is pulling His arm for he is about to lay it on the Cross4, has an evil smile to depict the wickedness of his actions. Even though Jesus was suffering, "they did not refrain from abuse"5. Some people where challenging the Son of God with remarks like: "Ah! You who destroy the temple of God"6 and "Himself He cannot save"7. Which brings the subject to the other pain of the Passion, which was the pain of shame. Shame because He was surrounded by "shameful company"8, those who accused Him, being impious and malevolent (as can be seen in their faces on the painting.) Shame because he was in a shameful place to begin with: Mount Calvary. This place was "reserved for the punishment of criminals"9 and thus was surrounded by criminals, although it is not shown in the painting. The other pain of the Passion "consists in that [Jesus-Christ] suffered at the hands of His friends"10 for He believed that the people torturing Him and humiliating Him where the same people He was saving. He felt that it would be a "lighter woe to suffer at the hands of those who had some reason to be His enemies [ ] or to whom He had done some wrong."11.
All this was done in the presence of His sorrowful mother, the Virgin Mary12 whom we see in the painting in two occasions: one to the top of the man who is holding Jesus" left arm (foreground) and the second time is on the background on top of the men on the right of Jesus being raised on the Cross. On both occasions we see the Holy Virgin being consoled by two different female persons (one on each representation). Those women are perhaps either Mary Magdalen or one of her two sisters, Mary Jacobi and Salome13.
At the bottom left of the painting is a bucket with three nails and a hammer, part of instruments of the Passion along with the rope and the crown of thorns14 (which are also in the painting).