In the Bible the tide turns more strongly against Jesus making any more headway.  He hadn't picked a fight with a more powerful enemy, but the brute forces (not interested in love and forgiveness, and not accepting of Jesus as sent by God Almighty) were displaying their version of "power" in going after Jesus.  Even as sword is drawn and a defender of Jesus' ear is cut off, Jesus heals the wound and intimates that the bigger picture requires an acceptance of making the ultimate sacrifice, and, letting the longer storyline (God having Victory over death, Jesus giving his life to take away the sins of the world--creating a Way for every person to receive forgiveness) survive Christianity-universal.

  When it comes to "deals" without a lot of layers of diplomacy, there's a part of it that is more about cutting our losses and moving on (directly attached to the hard goods of money and weapons); and there's a vacancy of intelligible explanation/interpretation (although there's no shortage of "commentary").