This poem introduces a series of Holy Week sonnets that I wrote out of a desire to follow Jesus through his Passion with a focus on his humanity. Classical Christian teaching has always insisted that Jesus was fully and truly human and fully and truly God. But Christian spirituality has tended to take the “God” more seriously than the “human.” What does it mean to see him as a person of extraordinary integrity, courage, and determination—but also as finite and uncertain and caught in the politics of his time and place like the rest of us? It’s my hope that that kind of Jesus comes through in these poems.