(February 19, 2023 at 5:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: How would the authorities, who didn’t know what Jesus looked like, have been able to arrest him without the services of a betrayer?
Right, they hired an informant in this situation, but notice that there was already a plot to kill Jesus. My claim is that this would have taken place by any means available, and betrayal wasn't necessary for it to occur.
He may have just been stoned in the street at the hand of the priests. I agree the story seems to require a sacrificial element (the lamb analogy), therefore suicide and senescence seem unlikely options.
