Artist: Gustave Dore
A Jewish shopkeeper on the Via Dolorosa watches Jesus go by his doorstep weighed down by a cross.
Seeing how slowly and painfully Christ is moving, the merchant Jew strikes Christ on the back, mocking him and urging him to go faster.
Jesus, said, “I go, but you will tarry until I return.”
Extant manuscripts have shown that as early as the time of Tertullian (c. 200), some Christian proponents were likening the Jewish people to a "new Cain", asserting that they would be "fugitives and wanderers (upon) the earth".
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (b. 348) writes in his Apotheosis (c. 400): "From place to place the homeless Jew wanders in ever-shifting exile, since the time when he was torn from the abode of his fathers and has been suffering the penalty for murder, and having stained his hands with the blood of Christ whom he denied, paying the price of sin."
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