The next event that happened was the cleansing of the temple, where Jesus addressed the scriptures and clamed that the temple was ‘a house of prayer for the people of all nations’ this angered the chief priests. This adds inevitability to Jesus’ death, as it shows that Jesus may have brought it on himself.
Another event happened as Jesus went to the temple and his authority was questioned, Jesus knew that if he said that his authority has come from God, he would get arrested for blasphemy, so Jesus did nothing.
Another event that had happened was the plot against Jesus, the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking to condemn Jesus to death, it is clear that Jesus has done something to anger the Jewish law abiders, possibly blasphemy as he was claming to be ‘son of man’. The plot began to proceed as Judas one of Jesus’ twelve disciples planned to betray him; Judas planned to betray Jesus after the Passover meal. The Passover is the most important festival for Judaism, and on this event the people sacrifice an animal to god, but in this case the sacrifice is Jesus. Jesus knew that the scriptures have being foretold and accepted this.
Jesus again refers to the scriptures as he predicts peters denial; again this shows that Jesus has accepted that he is going to die.
The most crucial event was when Jesus prays in Gethsemane, this is very important to the events leading up to the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus because, this is the point that Jesus could have avoided death, but believed that he was doing God’s will ‘not my will, but yours’.
Jesus was then arrested and Judas came over to Jesus realising that he had made a mistake and kissed Jesus on the cheek.
Jesus was then taken to the high priest house where he was to be trailed before the high priests, where his authority was again being questioned, but on this occasion Jesus admitted to being the ‘son of the blessed God’, this was the last straw for the Jewish teachers and they did all in there power to kill Jesus. Jesus still referred to himself as the son of man, this maybe because he believes that he has come onto earth to take away all the sin from the world, this shows Jesus to be fully divine and fully human so therefore less threatening to the authorities.
The next event that happened was that Peter denied Jesus 3 times, this adds inevitability to the scriptures as they are now being foretold.
The most important of all [parables is the crucifixion story, as this shows that Jesus has fully accepted his task that was given by God and that his job is to carry the burden of all the sins of the world, as he labelled himself ‘the son of man’.