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He could have been rescued.

He could have said
this is enough.
In fact in the garden he tried to change God’s mind.
Jesus and his followers went to a place called Gethsemane. He said to them, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 Jesus took Peter, James, and John with him, and he began to be very sad and troubled. 34 He said to them, “My heart is full of sorrow, to the point of death. Stay here and watch.”35 After walking a little farther away from them, Jesus fell to the ground and prayed that, if possible, he would not have this time of suffering. 36 He prayed, “Abba, Father! You can do all things. Take away this cup of suffering. But do what you want, not what I want.”

He prayed three times the same prayer.
“Father take this away from me.”
The symbolic number three representing perhaps the three days in the tomb and the three in the trinity.
After Judas gave him up to the soldiers.
Mark 15-16-20
The soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s palace (called the Praetorium) and called all the other soldiers together.17 They put a purple robe on Jesus and used thorny branches to make a crown for his head.18 They began to call out to him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”19 The soldiers beat Jesus on the head many times with a stick. They spit on him and made fun of him by bowing on their knees and worshiping him.20 After they finished, the soldiers took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him again. Then they led him out of the palace to be crucified.

Can you even imagine?
Jesus… the Son of God and
the people had no clue what they were doing.
They were part of the plan.
(as he says later “father forgive them for they don’t know what they are doing”)
They were in a frenzy to be violent and hateful and he was the object of their hostile behavior.
At any time
At any time
At any time
He could have been rescued.
He could have said this is enough.
Just as he had power to perform miracles
He could have saved himself.
But HE DIDN’T.