Cougarbear
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He wasn't insulting them. They may have felt like he was like you do. But, he was attempting to teach them the true understanding that they had polluted and changed the doctrine and understandings. That's why God stopped sending prophets to them. Their hearts had hardened and remain so today. I was fortunate to have escaped their vain traditions and by the Holy Spirit know Jesus Christ is Jehovah, the Son of the Father. Had more of the people of Judah known this, they would have known that the Messiah would first come to be the last atoning sacrifice and end animal sacrifice, which did happen. They would have known he wasn't there to defeat the Romans in physical war. He was there to defeat them in spiritual war in which eventually happened. Funny how things happen and not in the time frame we think.Actually, the NT Jesus comes off as an angry young man; not a pacifist at all.
Yeah, yeah, I know all about the "Turn the other cheek" phrase.
That was the only time he wasn't insulting Jews.