When Jesus saw that his vision for the kingdom of God had been conscripted by a violent nationalistic agenda, he wept and lamented the fate of Jerusalem. The patriotic crowd wanted the second coming of Joshua the Canaanite killer or David the Philistine slayer or Judah “The Hammer” Maccabeus. But Jesus was not the second coming of any Jewish war hero—he was the first coming of the Prince of Peace!
