He fell to his knees and began to sob. It is the closing scene in the motion picture, Ben Hur . The sky is disappearing behind the ominous looking cloud formations. The movie camera takes a long shot of three crosses rising out of a distant hill. Then the camera moves in close, closer, to the figure stretched out on the center cross.
Lightning reveals a man squirming in silent agony to the rhythm of the flashes.
It is raining hard. With each flash of light, the pool of rain water at the foot of the cross grows larger. Suddenly a single drop of blood drips into the pool and scatters. Then another drop falls. And then another.