The Atonement began in Gethsemane, and Mark 15 records its conclusion on the cross at Golgotha. Elder James E. Talmage, who was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, wrote that “death by crucifixion was at once the most lingering and most painful of all forms of execution. The victim lived in ever increasing torture, generally for many hours, sometimes for days. … The welcome relief of death came through the exhaustion caused by intense and unremitting pain” (Jesus the Christ, 655). In Doctrine and Covenants 19:16–19, Jesus spoke of the pain He felt in Gethsemane, which seems to have been greater and more intense than His suffering on the cross. As one of our hymns declares: “We may not know, we cannot tell, What pains he had to bear, But we believe it was for us He hung and suffered there” (“There Is a Green Hill Far Away,” Hymns, no. 194). Keep in mind, as you read this chapter, that “it was for [you] he hung and suffered there.”