Jesus was offering a different way of liberation, a way which affirmed the humanness of the national enemy as well as the destiny of Israel, and hence also affirmed the destiny of Israel as the bringer of light to the world, not as the one who would crush the world with military zeal.

Could the way forward be as simple as meeting people in the place of pain? Isn’t that what Jesus did? Could evangelism in our era look less like what Jude saw downtown and more like the stories in the Gospels?