He would have continued teaching. We still had SO much to learn. He prayed for this in the garden. But it required disciples who would at least stay awake for Him.
Accident? No. It was murder. And even if God didn’t arrange this to happen, it wasn’t a big surprise either – remember how Jesus said it was the long habit of Israel to kill those God sent to them… As His ministry progressed it became more and more the likely outcome, and clearly Jesus prepared for it.
Because it is what happened – how Christianity began. It is just vanity that Christians try to make it the center of God and the universe. It is like the way so many turn “man made in God’s image” around to make God in their own image.
Never!!! I am well aware of many many likes from you.
He makes it pretty clear He could have stopped it if He wasn’t willing. He just had to back down… same as Socrates.
Amen to that!