Matthew 26 and 27, the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus are hard to read, but the story starts with something I find amusing:
When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.” (Matthew 26.1 – 5, ESV)
Jesus said he would be crucified on Passover, and it had to be so since he was the Passover lamb. John the Baptist said:
Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1.29, ESV)
Paul, writing to the Corinthians, said:
Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. (1 Corinthians 5.7, ESV)
But the guys who crucified him, when they were planning it said, “Not during the feast lest there be an uproar among the people.” As I wrote in the title, “Who’s in charge.”
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’—for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. (Acts 4.26 – 28, ESV, emphasis mine)
1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. (Psalm 2.1 – 4, ESV)