Jesus in a way predicted his death ?

Jesus is essentially a myth and the gospels largely fictional; created to give substance to the ecstatic visions of Paul and the apostles, which Jesus appeared as the messiah. The ecstatic visions of Paul and the other apostles to the Jewish diaspora were to show that the Day of Judgment was imminent--messianiac views that were common among Jews at the time. When it became clear decades later that the Day of Judgment was not upon them, Paul's audience wanted to know more about Jesus, and because there was little to guide them, the gospels emerged to complete a picture, using passages from the Old Testament that messianic Jews had long interpreted as heralding the messiah.