for God's people. God allowed them to be captured, and put into slavery. Some say he allowed this because they disobeyed them. Then he usually sends someone to free them, and they are free again. Jesus was sent to free the Jewish people from not jst Roman rule, but also from the sin they had fallen into from the Roman influence. Well apparently he came for the gentiles as well, after all he did heal a Roman soldier after the soldier's superior asked Jesus too do so. Jesus was also upset about the money changers in the temple and the way the temple was run. The temple had a black list and some people were not allowed to go in, like the sick and the lame, etc. Jesus went out to reach these people to tell them that God had not forgotten about them.