Nor did he die as a martyr, immolated in a great cause. He was under no necessity of death so far as human power was concerned. Of his life he said, “I lay it down of myself, no man taketh it from me.” When the traitor-led crowd came out against him into the garden, he had but to say the dread, “I AM,” and they “went backward and fell to the ground.” More than twelve legions of angels were ready to deliver him. There is but one explanation of the death of Christ which satisfies the Scriptures: “He