Gentle... for now

In Luke 9 at the Transfiguration Jesus talked with Moses and Elijah about His coming departure from Jerusalem, and then Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. The rest of the book (two/thirds of Luke) was all about that journey to Jerusalem. When He finally arrived His crowd of disciples thought it was to establish His final kingdom, so to correct that He told the parable of the servants and subjects (minas), where the nobleman leaves and is gone a long time before coming back to reward the faithful and punish his enemies. The crowd of disciples praising Jesus were the servants and Jerusalem is the subjects who reject the king. So Jesus wept because of the judgment to which they were dooming themselves.