Fr. Herbert McCabe, in God, Christ, and Us, writes that Jesus is not just extricating himself neatly from a trap. After all, in the final showdown, he doesn’t bother to extricate himself at all. He allows himself to be betrayed by the nationalists to the colonial power. He is not just wriggling out of a difficult situation with a kind of “No Comment.” He wants to say that the question put to him is the wrong one. The quarrel between Herodians and Pharisees, between collaborationists and the resistance, is not the ultimate struggle. The liberation he has come to bring goes beyond political liberation. Jesus has come to show them that the real liberation of people lies in the faith that God is he who loves us, he who ultimately and unconditionally loves us (not because we are Jewish, Christian, or revolutionaries, but because we are who we are). That is the terrifying and destructive love of God that makes us able to see who we are, smashes our idols and images of ourselves, and confess our sin. And, in doing so, it liberates us and raises us from the dead to a new and free life in the Spirit of love. The Kingdom of which Jesus speaks is not to be achieved just by defeating Roman domination (or by replacing it with the Jewish Law or by the authority of the Church). The Kingdom is fully reached only when Jesus hands over the Kingdom to God the Father, having done away with every sovereignty, authority, and power so that God may be all in all. Everything comes from God and returns to God.