>>140412Because it's quoted so much I went and looked at the context before and after the passage.
It seems he tells them to go get swords because he's to be arrested and his disciples will be threatened/killed alongside him if they don't offer that visual offensive threat, but the actual use of them is rendered unnecessary when he mends Pharisee servant's ear and turns himself in effectively, presumably the disciples being left alone after that.
It basically justifies the use of rippling with offensive threat but then negates the necessity to be using it.
I rather like this conclusion actually.
>>140367I think Catholicism is to blame for it's intellectual laziness since the 5th century and the Protestants haven't done much about it other than add another layer of guilt complex
Things have gotten so bad/co-opted, they want to remove all mention of God along with any mention of He/Him to go along with it. If you're a European who believes in this stuff basically a few scattered wilderness men is all that is left out of all of us