I used to think...

Jesus came to this earth...to die for us...it had to be done; it wasn't much of a choice. It was the one & only main purpose.

So in order for that to take places, ppl needed to "sin" in order to nail Him to the cross. So i kinda always thought: "since Jesus had to die on the cross, it was inevitable. So the ppl who had sinned in order to nail Him...were also inevitable."

So at a point i was thinking...could u blame those ppl? Cuse they were all part of the plan. If they had not nailed Jesus to the cross, we would not be saved. But Jesus ofc, took the ultimate suffering in place of us. But i jus thought...someone would need to carry this task out. And inevitably, the ppl who crucified Jesus were manipulated (or used/controlled) to do so. Cuse they could not NOT nail Him...or else we would not be saved today.

I guess this wasn't such a pleasant thought...

But, I answered my own question:

"The world was already so sinful. If the world wasn't so sinful in the first place, there wouldn't even be a need for Jesus to come down. So it was purely the nature of humans that decided to nail Jesus to the cross, the work of sin. God did not need to prepare for this sacrifice of His son, the sin of mankind took care of itself."