<p>Indeed. The Magisterium of the Church can explain it far better than I (this can get very deep theologically). From the *Catechism of the Catholic Church<a href="nn.%20599%20to%20623">/i</a>:</p>
<p>“Jesus' violent death was not the result of chance in an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances, but is part of the mystery of God's plan, as St. Peter explains to the Jews of Jerusalem in his first sermon on Pentecost: **`This Jesus [was] delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God.'/B This Biblical language does not mean that those who handed Him over were merely passive players in a scenario written in advance by God.
“To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore He establishes His eternal plan of predestination', He includes in it each person's free response to His grace: **In this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.'/B For the sake of accomplishing His plan of salvation, God permitted the acts that flowed from their blindness.
“The Scriptures had foretold this divine plan of salvation through the putting to death of **the righteous one, my Servant'** (Isaiah 53:11) as a mystery of universal redemption, that is, as the ransom that would free men from the slavery of sin. Citing a confession of faith that he himself had **received'**, St. Paul professes that **`Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures.'<a href="1%20Cor%2015:3">/B</a> In particular Jesus' redemptive death fulfills Isaiah's prophecy of the suffering Servant. Indeed Jesus Himself explained the meaning of His life and death in the light of God's suffering Servant. (cf. Mt 20:28.) After His Resurrection He gave this interpretation of the Scriptures to the disciples at Emmaus, and then to the apostles. </p>
<p>“Consequently, St. Peter can formulate the apostolic faith in the divine plan of salvation in this way: **<code>You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers... with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake.'** (1 Peter 1:18-20.) Man's sins, following the original sin, are punishable by death. By sending His own Son in the form of a slave, in the form of a fallen humanity, on account of sin, God **</code>made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.'<a href="2.%20Co%205:21.">/B</a> </p>
<p>“After agreeing to baptize Him along with the sinners, John the Baptist looked at Jesus and pointed Him out as the **`Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world'/B. By doing so, he reveals that Jesus is at the same time the suffering Servant who silently allows Himself to be led to the slaughter and who bears the sin of the multitudes, and also the Paschal Lamb, the symbol of Israel's redemption at the first Passover. Christ's whole life expresses His mission: **“to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”/B
“By embracing in His human heart the Father's love for men, Jesus **loved them to the end'** (John 13:1), for **greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.'/B In suffering and death His humanity became the free and perfect instrument of His divine love which desires the salvation of men. Indeed, out of love for His Father and for men, whom the Father wants to save, Jesus freely accepted His Passion and death: **`No one takes [My life] from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord.'<a href="John%2010:18.">/B</a> Hence the sovereign freedom of God's Son as He went out to His death. </p>
<p>“Jesus gave the supreme expression of His free offering of Himself at the meal shared with the twelve Apostles **<code>on the night He was betrayed'** (1 Co 11:23). On the eve of His Passion, while still free, Jesus transformed this Last Supper with the apostles into the memorial of His voluntary offering to the Father for the salvation of men: **</code>This is My body which is given for you.'<a href="Luke%2022:19.">/B</a> **`This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.'/B
“The Eucharist that Christ institutes at that moment will be the memorial of His sacrifice. Jesus includes the apostles in His own offering and bids them to perpetuate it. By doing so, the Lord institutes His apostles as priests of the New Covenant: **`For their sakes I sanctify Myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.'<a href="John%2017:19.">/B</a> </p>
<p>“Christ's death is both the Paschal sacrifice that accomplishes the definitive redemption of men, through <code>the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world' (John 1:19), and the sacrifice of the New Covenant, which restores man to communion with God by reconciling him to God through the </code>blood of the covenant, which was poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.' </p>
<p>“This sacrifice of Christ is unique; it completes and surpasses all other sacrifices. First, it is a gift from God the Father Himself, for the Father handed His Son over to sinners in order to reconcile us with Himself. At the same time it is the offering of the Son of God made man, who in freedom and love offered His life to His Father through the Holy Spirit in reparation for our disobedience. </p>
<p>“<code>For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous.' (Rm 5:19.) By His obedience unto death, Jesus accomplished the substitution of the suffering Servant, who </code>makes Himself an offering for sin', when <code>He bore the sin of many', and who </code>shall make many to be accounted righteous', for **`He shall bear their iniquities'<a href="Is%2053:10-12">/B</a>. Jesus atoned for our faults and made satisfaction for our sins to the Father. </p>
<p>“It is love <code>to the end' (John 13:1) that confers on Christ's sacrifice its value as redemption and reparation, as atonement and satisfaction. He knew and loved us all when He offered His life. Now **</code>the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.'<a href="2%20Co%205:14.">/B</a> No man, not even the holiest, was ever able to take on himself the sins of all men and offer himself as a sacrifice for all. The existence in Christ of the divine person of the Son, who at once surpasses and embraces all human persons, and constitutes Himself as the Head of all mankind, makes possible His redemptive sacrifice for all.”</p>