That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled.

Had the Jews been allowed to put Christ to death, he would have been stoned, as Stephen was, by. mob in Jerusalem, stoning being the usual Jewish method of execution, but he had "signified what death he should die" (John 12:32, and Matthew 20:18-19) and had declared that he should be crucified. This was the method of punishment that the Roman uniformly adopted towards conquered races.

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