They are good, and therefore they will appear only in time to bury Jesus.

They will lay Him in the tomb themselves; you have only to execute Him." "But surely they love Him?
You yourself said so." "People always love their teacher, but better dead than alive.

While a teacher's alive he may ask them questions which they will find difficult to answer.

But, when a teacher dies, they become teachers themselves, and then others fare badly in turn.

Ha! ha!" Annas looked piercingly at the Traitor, and his lips puckered--which indicated that he was smiling.
"You have been insulted by them.