Before the Expected Death
There is a novel in Japan
A man, 50 years old or so, found that he would die of a cancer in half a year.
But he had nothing to do. He didn't really have nothing he wanted to do in six months till his diagnosed death.
One day he was in a bus as he returned from a hospital. There he heard two old men taking about their health. One of them said that he would kill some guys he really hated if he had been sentenced to death expected in months or a year for any illness; "I will kill my enemies and then I can die peacefully."
So, the hero started to think whether he had such enemies he had to kill before he died due to cancer. And, the story went on...
One thing we have to associate this story with is the story or the life of Christ Jesus.
He must have known that He would be killed by henchmen of Satan sooner or later. But He decided to make His best to save Israelites as many as possible till His death.
Indeed it is very unlikely that Christ Jesus thought that He would live for decades to conquer His enemies and liberate Isralites from the rule of Roman troops. But He did not even order His disciples to record His deeds and miracles into a book. Christ did not even instruct them to build a church. He simply talked to and taught people, performed miracles, and faced brutal power of the Roman authority and wicked priests of Judaism.
Nonetheless it is likely that He knew beforehand that He would be restored to life in three days after the crucifxion. If so, what did Christ Jesus really plan to do at the time? To destroy Satan?
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Mar 3:1 And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
Mar 3:2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
Mar 3:3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
Mar 3:4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.