In the Modern Art Museum of Strasbourg is a huge, at least 30-by-20 foot picture by Gustave Dore of Christ leaving the Praetorium.

It is a monumental work of art. Only Christ looks at the viewer. But it is also work of a dark and coming crucifixion, powerful in its grim intensity. Despite its darkness, light seems to leap out like the light Paul saw on the road to Damascus, sudden and determined to illuminate.