God loves at all times. His very nature is Love. He loves everybody.
“7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love” (1 John 4:7-8).
As recorded by the Prophet Isaiah in verses 7-8, “the grass withereth and the flower fadeth,” is used to illustrate that our flesh is like grass and a flower – short lived – here today and gone tomorrow, but the Word of God stands forever.
Crucifixion was a horrible form of capital punishment that was reserved for the worst of people: slaves, traitors, religious agitators, pirates and notorious criminals