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We are speaking about two different Jesuses. I'm a fan of both; they seem cool. Biblical Jesus tends to have a poetic turn of phrase. (Historical Jesus probably did not speak or read any of the languages in which the bible is written, if he was literate at all. But he was presumably a damn good orator if anyone felt like following him.) The historical Jesus likely would not have been big on Rome, given that it "systematically oppressed" its far-flung Jewish population for a hundred years, culminating in the sack of Jerusalem in 70 AD and the mass suicide at Masada a few years later.