If Jesus Christ determined that He would not be crucified, He would have prevented it. As to the idea that His crucifixion was an injustice liable to correction by the court, we fallible, sinful, limited human beings are incapable of "doing justice" to God. He is all knowing and all powerful. We, His creatures, owe him more than we can possibly give to him, which is why we require mercy and grace for our salvation, being incapable of earning it through our own actions. Our courts have enough trouble attempting to even the scales between offenders and their victims, whether civil or criminal, without seeking to achieve a metaphysical justice. Any attempt to "undo" the fact of Christ's crucifixion is as senseless as it is feckless.
For a Christian, it is crucial to remember that Christ was crucified for our sins. He died, not because of a miscarriage of justice, but because of our sin. We killed him. All of us. And no pompous statement from a panel of judges can change that, though it can obscure the fact from us. Indeed, such statements mislead us into believing that, if only "the process" of law were perfect, we wouldn't need to worry about difficult things like, say, our own characters and sins. But process, while it is almost all the rule of law can provide, is only as good as the ends we all pursue. A law, for example, punishing Christians for expressing their beliefs, could be instituted and applied in an entirely fair, equitable manner. There could be fair trials to determine whether a person actually said "Jesus is Lord" in public, or attempted to preach the Gospel, or expressed opposition to abortion. And those Christians could be found guilty and punished in a manner entirely consistent with the law. And we still would be living in a (law abiding, equitable) society that persecutes Christians. Our job, then, is not merely to "vindicate" legal process, but to change hearts and minds so that they will accept, or at least not persecute, our faith. More, our duty is to suffer persecution for our faith, if we must, while still bearing witness thereto.
Editor's note: The column first appeared August 29, 2013 at Imaginative Conservative and is reprinted with permission. The image above is a detail from "Christ before Pilate" painted by Mihály Munkácsy in 1881.