faith of the time ... for putting Jesus to death.
That they had the power and influence to do so ... that by their will and by their hand ... Jesus was put to death on the cross.
But no one put Jesus to death ... it was always God's plan for our redemption. There was no man .. no power in heaven or on earth ... that could take the life of God's Beloved. It was only through His obedience to do the Father's will that His life was given for us freely.
Mark 8: 31-33
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things,
and be rejected ... and be killed, and after three days rise again ...
And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. But ... he rebuked Peter,
saying, Get you behind me, Satan: for you mind not the things that be of
God, but the things that be of men
Luke 4: 28-30
And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled
with wrath, and rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him to
the brow of the hill where on their city was built, that they might cast
him down headlong. But he passing through the middle of them went his way