Who was Jesus unkind to?
Jesus did not mince words, he spoke truth ...
and did so to their faces.
The sinners? no.
He was kind, gentle and gracious to them.
The unbelievers, no.
He was kind, gentle and gracious to them.
Random atheists? nope
He knows people are ignorant because a lack of knowledge and refusal to see & accept the truth.
There was a very specific group of people Jesus called out, but he did it to correct them, to lead them to truth and salvation, These Jewish religious elites who claimed to represent God but did not. The highest ones in the temple and government of the religious nation, in that era. Why? They turned "the true faith of God" into an apostate legalistic false religion, and greatly burdened all the people in that religious nation with additional "laws" and rules that they made up...God never required those things of Israel.
Yet even though he was stern sometimes, He was kind to reveal truth to them, to educate them, to turn them back to the truth. They chose to harden their hearts and plotted against him. Because of greed, ego and self-righteousness. Also because of the wealth, power, status and other worthless temporary things of this world they valued over the things of eternity.
What else did Jesus do?
He made salvation available to the world.
And... he was kind to us today, He has given us the Bible so we can know God, know truth, know the Gospel, and follow Jesus. He is kind to us today by giving us this revelation (the Bible) so we need to read it, understand, and obey it... which all starts with obeying the Gospel
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