Throw away morality and justice, And people will do the right thing. There is a certain sense of surrender in those words. A sense of letting go. Of letting things be. Now in those states of mind which fall short of religion, the surrender is submitted to as an imposition of necessity, and the sacrifice is undergone at the very best without complaint.
Religion thus makes easy and felicitous what in any case is necessary.
Keep in mind it s not history, it s a story. In this part of Jesus story, things were dire. Jesus had defied the Roman authorities and alienated the Jews. There is an example of surrender. Not as I will, but as thou wilt.