Mark 6: Does the Lord protect the rigteous?

John was the messenger of the Lord. He was preaching about the coming of the kingdom of the Lord. People should repent from their sins in order to enter the kingdom. In particular, king Herodes and his wife Herodias should repent because Herodias was in fact wife of Herodes' brother. Herodias was very upset with John, so upset that she found a way to get John killed.
Let us imagine what Jesus thought when he heard about John's death. Certainly he became very sad.
Would he have asked:
- Does the Lord protect the righteous?
Much more likely, he understood more clearly that he was in the way to the cross; and that the cross was not the last thing.
In fact, the Lord protects the righteous, even though, sometimes the evil seems to be winning.
There is the resurrection.