If certain Jews had not conspired to have the Romans crucify Him, He would have lived and in living He would not have conquered death.
If certain Jews who had defended Him would have been successful in saving him, Jesus would not have been the Savior and the Evil One would have prevailed.
And the same arguments can be recast to the Romans.
The death of Jesus had to happen.
An interesting question is how could His death have been otherwise designed if it did not involve certain Jews and Romans? If it had been Romans pursuing Him, with all Jews protecting and hiding Him, would this have made a difference?
Why was it necessary to God’s plan that certain Jews be complicit in betraying him?
It was written in the older texts that Jews would reject their Messiah. But suppose for the sake of argument it had never been written thus.
Why was it necessary that certain Jews be complicit in the His death?
Let’s suppose that all Jews were innocent of complicity in his death and that the older texts never mentioned he would be rejected and betrayed by his people. But still He had to die, but then how would it be planned?
Say for example that the Romans arrested him for associating with those causing trouble and leading to insurrection. They put Him on trial where he talked of his Kingdom, so they convicted him of conspiracy against Rome, then crucified Him.
How then would history have changed? What made it necessary that certain Jews be involved in leading to His death?
God has a plan and part of the plan was that certain Jews be complicit in the necessary death of Jesus. Why is this?
SOMEBODY had to do it. . .