{"id":4557,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/jesus-knew-he-would-have-to-die\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:37","slug":"jesus-knew-he-would-have-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/jesus-knew-he-would-have-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Knew He Would Have To Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus&#8217; death is central to the church, to the apostles and to Jesus himself.  Jesus knew he would have to die because of:<\/p>\n<p>    1. Hostility of Jewish national leaders.<br \/>\n    2. Prophecies in Scripture (though they are not many).<br \/>\n    3. Jesus&#8217; own deliberate choice (not martyr complex, but obedience to<br \/>\n          Father).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus&#8217; death is central to the church, to the apostles and to Jesus himself. Jesus knew he would have to die because of: 1. Hostility of Jewish national leaders. 2. Prophecies in Scripture (though they are not many). 3. Jesus&#8217; own deliberate choice (not martyr complex, but obedience to Father).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92,632,636],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}