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>He still tells his followers to buy weapons so as to not be soft targets.
But he didn't. He told them to buy swords and come back. He asked how many among them, the answer was two daggers. We see later why he wanted the daggers around, so he could teach he who lives by the sword dies by the sword sheathing all swords.

The original Church understood this perfectly and spoke the same tongue the Bible was written in, knew all the idioms of the time, and knew the apostles. If people born many hundreds of years later are telling you different, I would question them. Jesus was clear on this. Here's Irenaeus to help clear it up some more.