Absolutely.
Put your sword away as Jesus commanded.
He had plenty of armed guards, why did he let them arrest him?
Because he would be acting as if he were attempting to be king, insurrecting, as you would.
Paid agitators in the crowd. God damn it's not like they've updated their playbook in 2000 years.
Don't let them drag us down to their level.
They want an "incident" a Boston massacre, a tsarist guard shooting into the crowd, they need something to justify the CHINK army being brought in.
So don't give it to them.
Let it play out.
Plenty of time to do a terror later if need be.
Why did Jesus make his followers sell their cloaks and use the money to buy swords when they arrived at Jerusalem? It's hard to understate the importance of a cloak back then. People lived and died over their cloaks or lack of them, and Jesus made them trade them in for weapons.
Peter used his sword when Jesus was arrested. Jesus then immediately pulled a 180, said "put away the swords I made you buy for some reason", and undid the damage Peter did to the Roman's ear. This is the last mention of the sword.
So why did Jesus make his disciples buy swords? So that they could be armed while watching their leader being tortured to death?
Because they were being labeled as insurrectionists to the roman empire.
Jesus was labeled as a tyrant trying to overthrow the romans.
If they had violently opposed the arrest it would have brought the entire roman army on top of their heads and the jews would never get the blame.
Jesus sacrificed himself to protect his followers and to expose the plot.
Because they were being labeled as insurrectionists to the roman empire.
So... why make it look like the label is correct by selling their clothing to buy weapons?
Answer the question. What were the swords for? Peter is the only one who used it, and his action was immediately undone. The swords that Jesus spent his precious breath ordering his followers to sell their clothing for are never mentioned again. Why?
I think this is just like any other legend/mythical figure. Jesus of Nazareth was an insurrectionist, starting a new religion based on John the Baptist's teachings. He brought a mob to Jerusalem, and got them armed. He was rousing the rabble, threatening the Pharisees power, and so they pressured the Romans into killing Jesus before he could start a revolution. He was made an example of, very publicly and brutally- "This is what happens to a man when they challenge the (((status quo))), flogged to ribbons, mocked and humiliated, and left crying out for their father as they're nailed to a cross".
Over the mists of millennia, Jesus's legend grew, and decades after these events actually happened, people started writing down the oral accounts of what happened, spicing it up with miraculous powers and such. These stories floated around for hundreds of years, before King James came along and compiled them all into one story, heavily edited to remove contradictions and try to align timelines as best they could.
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