[markomalley]

And He sure didn’t harm Himself or climb up on the cross and drive in the first nail.

True, that, but consider this:

Mat 26:53 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?
Mat 26:54 But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?"

He knew what was coming for him, yet He went voluntarily to that end. So it might be more accurate to say that He was not a masochist. And He did know what was coming: Read Isa 53

[hocndoc]

Yes, as I said, “Jesus fervently prayed that the “cup” that *He knew He would bear* be lifted”