Of course, it wasn't peace. War was soon to engulf Europe and the whole world. Whether through violent means, which is so often the case, or through nonviolent means such as with Ghandi or Martin Luther King, a battle of some sort always surrounds the pursuit of peace. It seems like an oxymoron, but peace must be fought for. Peace never comes easily.
Peace never comes easily, but ancient Rome thought they had done a good job of achieving it.
Under Rome the world was experiencing the greatest peace it had ever known. Of course, the peace of Rome was not a just peace. It wasn't based on truth, but on might, and coercion and threats. And so, somewhere, far from Emperor Tiberius and his throne in Rome, on the edge of Roman conquest, in an area called Judea, governed for Rome by a man named Pontius Pilate, out in the wilderness of that area, a man, a prophet by the name of John, came proclaiming that all is not right with the world. Now John, out in the wilderness, as far from the centers of power as he can be, seemingly an insignificant little speck in history, begins a challenge to the peace of Rome.