But you missed the 2nd order point as happens so often with reflexive/defensive type commenters: Even in a merely temporal sense (not to mention the supernatural effect which was an infinitely horrific offense) the violence against Jesus lowered the bar all around the people who witnessed it or even learned about it...they could go home and slap their wife and say.."well, this is nothing compared to the Nazarenian." 

Jesus let a coarser and more grotesque example be set, lowering the bar for all.  He was complicit in it...He allowed it, even as a man. 

So the "non violent" types ought to ask themselves a more demanding question, why?