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.