Thank you for your witness that "He knew what he was doing."
The story changed rather abruptly from a superman who could change matter, animate life, and heal -- a demigod with knowledge and powers beyond any man -- to a helpless victim of an oppressive society at the mercy of a bunch of soldiers.
Christ was capable of changing matter -- why not turn their swords into snakes, ala Moses?
Christ was capable making the dead living, just reverse the magic in front of Harod and he would have backed off.
The other possibility is that all the stories about magic and supernatural powers are bullshit. And Christ was just a man, like all of us, a son of the creator, and his life and death became an inspirational story for gentiles and Jews.
One big fallacy in the evangelical literalist view is that if you don't accept Jesus into your heart you're going to hell. Native American Indians could not have known the story of Christ until Columbus and later the Pilgrims landed on their shore. How are Buddhists, Hindus, Native Americans supposed to be saved if they were never able to hear the 'Good Word'?? Seems kind of unfair that the loving and forgiving God would create a world with societies separated by water and expect early tribes without the technology to cross an ocean to all believe in a man they've never heard of. But I digress. This is a topic for another thread.
