Matthew 26:55

Does Christ then blame the Jewish leaders because they were not already laying an early snare of death for him? That is not what he means. Rather: though you could seize me day by day while I taught in the temple, you did not — for I was saving the need to suffer for the fitting time. So Christ did not say this as accusing Jewish madness, nor as rebuking their slowness toward bloodshed because they did not seize him at the outset when he was present and seen. He convicts them rather that the arrest was not the work of power in them, but of his will, who economically accepted the unwanted suffering and made it willed — not because suffering was good in itself, but because what would follow from it was about to restore human nature to what it was from the beginning, showing that taking him was the work of his permission.