75 Question 21 Could the authorities have acted righteously and released Jesus?

Acts 4:27-28 “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.”

We will never know the ‘what if’s of history, for we can never go back or completely understand the reasoning behind decisions that were not our own, but with biblical matters, we have the advantage of the Bible and through that we can have a better understanding of the will of God that “works all things together for the good of those who love Him.”

In John 7:30 and John 8:20 we see two instances where the Pharisees would have arrested Jesus but they were not allowed to because it was not Jesus’ time.

Then in John 19:11 Jesus said “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above.”; the text is clear that the Pharisees could do nothing to Jesus except what the Lord permitted them to do, but in this instance, the time had come for Jesus to be taken and the price of all sins to be paid.

John 7:30 “So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.”

John 8:20 “These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.”

John 19:11 “Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.””