We have seen how the Gospels present Jesus as standing at a moment of great transition. He is summing up the whole ancient prophetic tradition and re-expressing its message in terms of the last great warning to Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Turn now, he says, follow God’s way of peace rather than your crazy flight into national rebellion against Rome. If you don’t, it will mean disaster. This becomes perhaps most explicit in Luke 19, as Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey – in tears, lamenting the destruction that will come on the city because the people had indeed refused his way of
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Jesus is always the one that pulls me back.
