This couple of verses occur at the end of the feeding of the 5000. The lectionary writers start off with Ps 15, in which the claiming of interest is called wicked, and the story of Gershom, who stole his master’s idols and how the Danites intimidated his master into letting him go.
14When the people saw the sign that he had done, they began to say, “This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world.”
15When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
Jesus was not going to let people choose his agenda. Nothing has changed. As humans, we confuse strategy and tactics — as nations and in our lives. Jesus would not let the crowd set the agenda.