'Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.'
John Ball writes:
They saw the miracle but they did not understand the miracle. All they saw in Jesus was a great man. They did not see God.
They saw a great man, and in the spirit of idolatrous subservience, they wanted to make him their leader, their king.
They wanted a worldly leader to rule over them in a form of world government.
Like the Politically Correct, like the Islamist Nihilists, they wanted to turn the world into a concentration camp ruled by the Great Regulator, Satan.
They wanted to take him by force, because force is the way of the servile and the worldly, but Jesus's Kingdom is the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of Love and Freedom, the Kingdom of God.
No, Jesus did not seek a political solution, enforced by violence and prison, beatings and executions.
So, he withdrew quietly, to a mountain, to be alone.
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