From that day on they planned to kill him

In the last resort what happens in death is the same for all: we are deprived of everything, even of ourselves; we all fall, each of us alone, into the dark abyss where there are no further ways. And this death... Jesus dies; he who came out of God's glory did not merely descend into our human life, but also fell into the abyss of our death, and his dying began when he began to live and came to an end on the cross when he bowed his head and died.

Jesus died as we die. When we say this... what we see is Jesus following in our way and not ourselves in his... If we believe also that our own human reality has been assumed by God, this is true also of our death. Since the eternal Logos of the Father suffered it as his own death, this death must be redeemed, sanctified, emptied of final despair and futility, filled with the eternal life of God himself.

Quote: Karl Rahner, “Following the Crucified”, Theological Investigations 18 (1984) 166.