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Jesus declared, in effect, that His kingdom was NOT of this world. He never taught His disciples how to protest Roman oppression.
Actually, it has always been pretty clear to me that Jesus was portrayed as talking about a literal kingdom on earth, in at least the earlier Gospels.
He speaks of people listening to him during a sermon being alive when he returned, for one thing.
The Gospel of John, for example, is very different from the other three Gospels in that it portrays the "kingdom" as a spiritual one, while the earlier ones clearly considered Jesus an actual leader which would come back from the dead to lead his people to a military victory over their oppressors.
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