Jesus’ Example Our leader - our Lord, our Saviour - is Jesus, the Prince of Peace. He was not a violent person. He committed no acts of violence against anyone. (One time he did drive the moneychangers out of the temple with a rope in his hand, but no one was recorded as being injured let alone killed.) When he was arrested to be crucified he told his disciples to bring the two swords they had - but he never told them to use their swords. I believe Jesus had the disciples bring the swords to show that he knew he was going to be arrested, that he could have chosen violent resistance, but that he was actively choosing not to respond with violence. When Peter - always the first to act - did use one of the swords, Jesus told him to put it away, then proceeded to heal the person whom Peter hit with his sword.
“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus told him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?” Matthew 26:52-54
The next day Jesus told Pilate,
My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another plac e. John 18: 36
As it is, Jesus’ disciples do not fight that way.
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