Jesus' "Embrace of Pain"

"It is the Christian claim that Jesus paradigmatically embodied the central biblical trajectory of embracing marginality and pain - ultimately death - on behalf of both the margins and the center, thus bearing the sins of the world. This radical embrace was vivid testimony to his trust in the Creator of both center and margins, a Creator who is able to bring life even out of death. The person of Jesus, and especially his death on a cross, thus becomes in the New Testament a symbol of the counterideological intent of the biblical metanarrative and the paradigm or model of ethical human action, even in the face of massive injustice."
(J. Richard Middleton & Brian Walsh, Truth is Stranger Than it Used to Be, p. 104-105)