What is personality of Jesus according to the Gospel of Mathew, Mark, Luke and John?
According to the Gospel of Matthew the three characteristics that immediately came to mind were: GENTLE, FORGIVING, and LOVING. My guess is that most of you think of Jesus in similar terms as well. Matthew 10, however, gives a very different portrait of Jesus. Not many people, until reading this particular section in Matthew, know this side of Jesus. And if we are aware of this side of Jesus, we often choose to forget about it. We are anxious to hear how Jesus loves His enemies, forgives prostitutes, touches lepers, and feeds the hungry, but that’s it. The Jesus we see in chapter 10, verses 34-39–this Jesus, quite frankly, is the one that nobody wants to know . There is an essential side of Jesus that is DEMANDING. This is where Jesus is, what you might term, “brutally straight forward”. He holds nothing back here. “Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword”(v.34). According to the Gospel of Mark Jesus had an extraordinary intelle
