What did Jesus know, and when did he know it?

I believe The Bible.
While there has been thousands of years between the actual writing of the last books, and many, many transcriptions of those words, the accuracy of those translations over those thousands of years is remarkable.
We know that, because archaeologists and brainiacs have, through the years, uncovered copies of original manuscripts that go back to within, in some cases, a hundred years of the original writing. And when they translated those copies, they found the current translations in use today were essentially accurate.
When the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1948, they found a large section of what turned out to be the book Isaiah. And again, when those scrolls were translated, they found very little correction needed to be made in modern translations. That's remarkable when you consider all the copying done of scripture over those thousands of years.
But while I believe The Bible, I certainly can't say I understand it all. Truthfully, I wouldn't expect to. If we're getting a glimpse into the mind of God, how can we expect to understand it all? If I only accept the parts I do understand, then what I'm saying is that I trust my own intellect over all else, making me god. And I know that ain't right.
However, I do believe some of the interpretations (different than translations) we've grown up on may not be exactly the way things actually happened. But I don't know.

That brings me to Jesus. And, of course Easter.
I had a friend tell me once that she didn't think Jesus' sacrifice was any big deal. "I mean,'' she said, "he was God, so he knew that he wouldn't die, that he'd be back. So how tough was that? If you knew you were going to go through great pain that would save the world but that you couldn't die, wouldn't you do that?"
And I understand how she came to that conclusion.
Indeed, one of the most difficult aspects of Jesus is this whole concept of "fully man, fully God." What does that mean? How can someone be both God and man at the same time? Was Jesus born knowing he was also God? Or did that realization come upon him as he lived and studied the Scripture (which we know, according to the Scripture, that he did) - reading Old Testament prophecy and somehow realizing that it was he (him?) that the Scripture was talking about?
Yes, what I'm saying is that what if this boy grows up, hearing stories of his birth - being made fun of by the locals who don't know who his father is but know it's not Joseph - and finding comfort in  the OldTestament, where he somehow begins to see a picture of who he is.
If you or I did that, they'd call us crazy. As C. S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity, “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.”
Indeed, at one point in his ministry, Jesus' own family came to have him committed - even his mother, Mary, who knew better than anyone who Jesus was.
Jesus did get confirmation at his baptism, when he heard - for the first time, as far as we know - his Father's voice speak to him. Imagine, if you will, growing up only hearing stories about your father, but never hearing from him until you're an adult. And how amazing that the first words you hear from your father would be, "This is my Son, in whom I am pleased!"
From that moment on, could Jesus have been looking for further confirmation from his father?
Again, if you or I acted this way, we'd be considered crazy, along the lines of people who think they are Napoleon or a brown squirrel. But if Jesus did indeed live a sinless life, if time after time he saw how his life did indeed fulfill Old Testament prophecy, if he found he did indeed have insight and some power that wasn't "normal,'' it would mean Jesus would be that one man who believed he was God and was actually correct. (Just like there was that one man who was, indeed, Napoleon, and there is such a thing as a brown squirrel).
It would take an awful lot of faith, however, to live that way - true to who you believe yourself to be, in the face of a world that says you're crazy.
And even as Jesus began to realize he was destined to die on the Cross - which he went to willingly after asking his Father if there was any way to avoid it - could Jesus have realized that upon his death, he would face the wrath of the Father that he'd never actually had any human contact with? That, in fact, the Father that Jesus longed to be united with would actually turn His back on him, rejecting him because on Jesus was placed the sin of the world? (remember Jesus' cry from the cross, "Why have you forsaken me?")
And, of course, the only human who had no sense of sin or guilt or shame was suddenly exposed to it, full blown. He didn't have a chance to learn it the way most of us do, with those little sins and guilts that we grow up with and slowly learn to accept. By the time we're adults, we (hopefully) hate our sin and are troubled by our guilt, but we've also got a lifetime history to help us deal with those feelings that Jesus didn't have.

I'm sorry, but I just don't accept that it could have, in any way, been "easy" to be Jesus.
But then again, I could be wrong.

Then again, it really doesn't matter if what Jesus did was easy or not. The point is, Jesus was the only one who could have done it - the only one who was without sin, who could take on the sins of the world because he had no sin of his own, who would be acceptable to restore the broken relationship between God and man.
I believe that.
Even if there are many parts that I don't fully understand.

A radio host in Atlanta, Erick Erickson, wrote this and I think it fits:
"Christ is for everyone, but not everyone wants him as he truly is. They want their Christ. Everyone, all of us, fall into that trap. But some refuse to recognize it and get out of it. They want their sin and their Jesus.
Over the next three days we remember the three days that have had a bigger impact on the history of mankind than any other.
 You can deny that Christ was crucified, despite historic, secular sources that confirm the event. You can deny that Christ rose again from the dead.
What you cannot deny is that what so many treat as fact and others scorn as cheap, recycled myth has shaped art, science, culture, literature, and government more profoundly than any other event.
I personally have a hard time believing that any myth would be so powerful and so lasting. Today we remember Christ’s death. On Sunday, we remember He lives."