 Remember, he just declared who he was, who's Jesus I am, and boom, everybody hit the deck. At that moment, he could have walked away and avoided all the pain of the cross. But we would be left with a question. The question would be, is there a limit to the love of God? Sure, he said he was going to go up to Jerusalem and deliver himself into the hands of men. Sure, he was going to tell the truth right up, no matter what they did to him.