All this is from God…

The four passion narratives in the Gospels are designed, through extensive use of citations from the Old Testament, to show that God is at work at every turn to carry out his plan. Paul makes the narrative explicit: “If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself . . . that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning their trespasses against them” (11 Cor. 5:17-19).—Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, 523