The evidence is clear before He was captured and Crucified that Our Lord was intentionally meaning to be put to death in order to fulfill the task that the Father had allotted Him.....To die and shed His blood as a lamb of atonement.
Matthew 16; 21 From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
22 Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. “Far be it from You, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to You!” 23 But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
24 Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his Cross and follow Me. 25 For whoever wants to
save his life will lose it, but whoever
loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 …
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