Jesus knew this before He died: that the Son of Man must suffer at the hands of evil men and be crucified and on the third day rise again. This Son of Man was made known to the ancient prophet Enoch as the one before whom every human will be judged "when He sits upon the throne of His glory". So the rightness of God's case against humankind is proven. Firstly there is the demonstration of the evils of humans that given they chance they unjustly crucify this faultless, perfect Son of Man. Secondly none of them are worthy to judge but this Son of Man is worthy. Thirdly this Son of Man having suffered at their hands has full rights to judge them. Fourthly humankind is forever at the mercy of this Son of Man. Fifthly, by raising this Son of Man from the dead the vindication of the Son of Man is complete and God's fatherliness to the Son of Man is revealed and sealed forever as is His perfect pleasure in all the Son of Man is and does. In the events that followed the prediction was correct that those who crucified Him came to realise who they had crucified as many believed Jesus to be this Son of Man, the Lord and the Messiah sent by God as Lamb of God slain for our sins to buy us from slavery to wrongdoing so we are owned by God.
