You have to realize that this was urged just prior to His crucifixion. They would be in a weak moment. He was condescending to their lack of faith before the Holy Spirit came in power.
It is hard to square your attitude with Christians who are lauded... LAUDED... for “joyfully accepting the confiscation of [their] property” ... I did not put that in the Bible (Hebrews), God did. Surely they should be flouted as suckers who did not use the sword that ohhhhhh, the mouth of the very Lord bade them to? What a strange compliment to pay to them.
In the temple, that was an illustration that God wanted to protect holy territory from being defiled. You defile it when you claim to belong to Christ and then bring a common worldly attitude that rises no higher than “I shoot you or you shoot me, ugh.”
You’re proceeding from a false assumption. I never at any time said I “belong to Christ”.
This conversation bores me. Shut up now.