Jesus came to earth as a human being so He knew what physical and emotional pain would be like for His people. I think these feelings were included so we as human being can have an idea of what Jesus went through and how He felt. He suffered emotionally because He was moved to tears at the death of Lazarus, He suffered emotionally when the merchants were using the Temple as a gambling site rather than a place of worship. That made Him angry and He turned over the tables of the money changers.

Jesus endured pain physically when He carried that cross, the cross where he was nailed to and bore pains for our sins, the cross that was hanged between a murderer and a thief, the cross where before He died, He saved the soul of one of the men being punished beside Him, the same cross where He said "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do". Jesus died for us physically, emotionally and spiritually.

His spiritual death is to show us how we should live, how He saved us from sin through His death, by His stripes we are healed. If we accept Him, feel the Holy Spirit moving within us, we can claim the victory of knowing He lives within our hearts. Jesus paid the price on behalf of mankind so that mankind does not need to suffer spiritual separation from God.

Jesus knew because of our sins we would suffer physical and emotional pains so He did that to show us we were not alone.

It stems from what happened in the Garden of Eden. What took place there was more than spiritual separation, in everyway possible we had lost our connection to GOD.

Jesus' penalty had to completely cover all aspects of our sin, flesh, soul, emotions, spirit, because as humans we are more than just spiritual.

For centuries man has tried to correct our separation through his own works, and failed miserably. What Jesus accomplished was something so powerful and completely airtight, that no man,woman or principality could break. jesus saved us, a precious gift given again, just like in the beginning when GOD created us and gave us life.

Jesus Christ Son of the Living GOD came down to earth for only one reason and that is the total redemption and cleansing of mankind from every sin and evil that Satan throws against us, and that is Spiritual degradtion, emotional,psychological and physical illnesses. All of these evils had to be paid for, the sacrifice of lambs or other creatures and various good works was never going to be sufficent.It is only by the suffering by the of Son of GOD - the most perfect and one and only sinless person to walk on earth - that could cleanse us of every evil, and that includes physical evil - namely bodily ill health . Remember, that it is by the wounds of Jesus Christ that we are healed and by His Precious,Perfect, Pure, powerful and Priceless Blood that we are saved. I am sorry that I am not able to note down the specific reference of the two well known verses in the Bible- one in the Old Testament and one in the New Testament,it is somewhere in Issiah and Peter. These two verses very specifically mention that we are healed by the wounds of Jesus. So, that is the reason why Jesus Christ had to suffer physical and emotional pain.  

JESUS WAS FULLFILLING THE PROPHECIES OF GOD,

Man sinned from the beginning and was cursed by God both physically and spiritually.  Jesus having come in the form of man had to go through what mankind was going through as a result of the curse. By going through the physical and emotional pain it meant that we are free from the curse and that there would be no more animal sacrifices for the atonement of our sins.  There is no separation between us and God.  We can now approach Him through prayer without any barrier.

The dictionary meaning of incite is to provoke a situation or set in motion - therefore I think that is too much of a strong word to use in describing Jesus actions or the events that took place before His death.

Jesus knew before time what was going to happen because He was born to be the Messiah.  Micah Chp5:2,5 reads, But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village in Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you, one whose origins are from the distant past. (5) And He will be the source of our peace. So hundreds of years before Jesus was born, Micah predicted His birth and His birthplace, he even knew He would be the Messiah, he knew all about Jesus and His life to come.

I  think Jesus wanted more to emphasize His love for His people and the Temple which was a place of worship. During the passover week, the Temple, a place where is sacred was use as a gambling house, sacrificing animals and money changing, the merchants were abusing the system, making money out of the foreigners who traveled from far, that made Jesus angry and he overturned the tables and ran them out of the Temple.

Jesus predicted His death because He knew He had to die for the sins of the world and conquer Satan. If he did not die on the cross, this would be a corrupt world owned by Satan and all of us would be his followers. But thanks be to God, Jesus came from heaven to earth to show us the way to eternal life, the way to His Father who sent Him, then from the earth to the cross where He paid our debt of sin, and from the cross where He suffered and died to the grave where He was buried until that third and glorious day when he rose again. All this He predicted to His disciples.

Jesus wants us as Christians to focus our attention on Him, He is the way the truth and the life. He is saying we are to be obedient and be prepared like He was, then when death comes we would more readily accept it just as He did.