The big question

"Why then, did Jesus have to die? Even Jesus asked that question. In the Garden of Gethsemane he asked if there was any other way. There wasn't. There isn't. On the cross, in agony, he cried out the question, "Why!?" Why was he being forsaken? Why was it all necessary? The answer of the Bible is - for us."
Timothy Keller in The Reason for God.