Your approaching this thinking of Christ's divinity, but there is also Christ the man here.You assume two things, it seems. That God has only wrath towards those He destroys, and that hell is for eternal torture.
God is working His plan, and His plan is perfect. We don't understand the plan from earth, even though we get a glimpse of it. But we see that it includes the existence of unsaved people.
When God is destroying unsaved people, He is destroying them with wrath (and other complimentary attributes), but that's not necessarily the only way He relates to them. You, a human, cannot have more empathy towards people you don't like than God. I don't know how God, in totality, relates to the unsaved, but I think it's not only one complimentary group of attributes. He does destroy them, but first and foremost, He does it because it's part of His perfect plan, predetermined before the foundation of the earth, not because He hates them.
There is a line in John 13, when Jesus announces that one of the apostles is going to betray Him: "Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me." (John 13:21)
Why was Jesus troubled in spirit?
Some say it's because He is saddened that one of the apostles is going to betray Him. But this verse was right after Jesus washed the feet of all apostles, acting in ultimate non-selfcentered way. And, at the same time, Jesus is the Son of God.
So I don't think that Jesus was feeling sorry for Himself about being betrayed. I think Jesus was saddened because He knows that Judah is a vessel for destruction. That Judah, a man, has no say in his destiny, which is to be destroyed. Jesus knows that in a few moments satan is going to come into Judah, on a mark from Jesus Himself (John 13:26-27), and take over fully, so that what's needed to be done gets done as predetermined. And I think He is saddened about it. He is saddened about predetermined destiny of Judah. (Note that when Jesus talks to Judah in John 13:27, He is in fact directly giving order to satan, who entered Judah at that moment.)
At the same time, although it saddens Jesus, who is God, Judah's destiny is part of God's pefect plan, so it's to be done.
That's how I see it.
As for hell, it takes a dedicated study to have a position on the nature of it, just like for most issues in the Bible. Based upon what I've studied so far about it, my conclusion is that hell is not eternal torture. There is torment, but it ultimately ends and unsaved person is destroyed completely. Anyway, just like other issues, it's certainly not something you can take verse here or there and conclude what it is.
Imagine being at once both God and man, and knowing that with the betrayal follows the crucifixion and suffering.
Something that does not get much discussion is Christ's humanness.
Example
Hebrews 5:6-8New King James Version (NKJV)
6 As He also says in another place:
“You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek”;
7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
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