Matthew 11:20-24

I find it amusing the perception America has of Jesus.

We say He's a good moral teacher, and that He was generally a kind man. Someone who would never offend anyone. Jesus brought peace, we might say.

Yeah. America doesn't really know the Bible then, because the more I read in the book of Matthew, the more I come to realize Jesus was pretty stern, and straightforward. He said it like it was.

In the example I read today, Jesus condemned entire cities to Hell.

He has no pity on those people who had every opportunity to repent of their sins and chose not to do so. In the cities where His miracles were the greatest, they were not repentant. Jesus got upset at this.

It seems this Jesus isn't such the mild-mannered, peaceful hippie America wants to think He is.