Is Jesus a Command of Violence in the New Testament?

Has Jesus ever advocate for any kind of violence, like divine retribution or justice? Or is it just purely a pieceable figure that we see? Well, you know, so two things about that in Revelation. It turns out to be completely false. When you have the pronouncement of the fall of Babylon later in the book, Christ tells the people, leave Babylon. So it's a command of violence and you do not get that in the gospels. What he says is love your enemy. He doesn't say, yeah, okay, go after them and destroy twice as many of them as destroyed you. And so I'd say this one is radically different from what you get in the

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