When Jesus says things like "only the Father knows", He's speaking from the man part of him, not Jesus as God, His choice not to know. The same when the two apostles asked to be seated on either side of Him in heaven, He told them that it wasn't His to give but the Father's, He was speaking as the man He was, not as God that He was.
He suffered and died as a man would suffer, not as God would, again, His choice.
Just my interpretation, yours most likely will vary and neither interpretation will affect your salvation or mine - still my "opinion".
Right on.