Jesus was not a helpless victim of human violence or a tragedy of political injustice. He was not overpowered, outsmarted, or cornered. Scripture is explicit about this.
Jesus Himself said, “No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again”
(John 10:18).
The cross was not something that happened to Him. It was something He willingly stepped into.
What looked like defeat from the outside was, in reality, a deliberate act of love carried out with full authority.
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