Jesus did not say "We have to free ourselves of the unjust Roman occupation ! Rise and fight !"
He persistently avoided anything that would have been incited violence of the populace against the civil authority.
The later viewpoint of radical Jews later caused much internal bloodshed, when the radical right killed anyone who advocated accommodation with the Romans. In a sense the hard liners were in the right, insofar as the Romans had no real moral basis to occupy their country. In the end, the war with Rome was a disaster for the Jews, on a level with the Nazi holocaust in terms of the
destruction of the country.
But Jesus was a non-violent, enlightened individual and teacher, who accepted the separation of Church and State, was careful not to infringe on civil law, and advised the faithful on the proper delineation of the two.
In my opinion, that is an exceedingly wise teaching, expressed concisely and in a way that people have remembered it for over 2000 years.
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Instead of fighting the Romans Christians were to abandon everything and flee Jerusalem and Judea.
(Luke 19:41-44) And when he got nearby, he viewed the city and wept over it, 42 saying: “If you, even you, had discerned on this day the things having to do with peace—but now they have been hidden from your eyes. 43 Because the days will come upon you when your enemies will build around you a fortification of pointed stakes and will encircle you and besiege you from every side. 44 They will dash you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave a stone upon a stone in you, because you did not discern the time of your being inspected.”
(Luke 21:20-24) “However, when you see Jerusalem surrounded by encamped armies, then know that the desolating of her has drawn near. 21 Then let those in Ju·deʹa begin fleeing to the mountains, let those in the midst of her leave, and let those in the countryside not enter into her, 22 because these are days for meting out justice in order that all the things written may be fulfilled. 23 Woe to the pregnant women and those nursing a baby in those days! For there will be great distress on the land and wrath against this people. 24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations until the appointed times of the nations are fulfilled.
Obedience saved their lives. Those that failed to heed the warning perished,
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