Bible Lesson: The Death of Jesus an Evolving Myth

[John V]

The gospels are far from uniform. They are contradictory in places and the each tell of a rather different Jesus. The synoptic gospels share a similar story, but the details change as Jesus becomes less man-like and more god like:

This depiction of Jesus is of a man in the desolation of despair. He is not expecting salvation.

If you start reading a little earlier, you'll see that he is expecting salvation:
Mark 14
24 And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new[c] covenant, which is shed for many. 25 Assuredly, I say to you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

28 “But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee.”