front and rip, rip blood vessels, skin. the pains were literally brutal. >> zugibe says his agony was compounded when jesus was forced to carry the 50-pound crossbeam out of pilate's fortress and through these streets of jerusalem, today called the via della rosa, "the way of sorrows." >> in the condition that jesus was in, the shocky condition that's now being built up, the crowning of thorns adding more shock, jesus would be stumbling, he would be unsteady on his feet. he would fall, he would get up, fall. >> finally jesus arrived at a hill outside the city walls called golgotha, which means the place of the skull. a site that today is covered by the ornate church of the holy sepulcher. in jesus' day this holy place was a killing field where a team of roman soldiers awaited their victim and quickly set about their grisly task.