JESUS WAS ANGRY

Jesus was fully human even as He remained fully God. We see numerous human responses in the Gospels: Jesus was thirsty, he was hungry, he was tired, he wept. And he was angered.
Most people if asked about Jesus and anger, would immediately reference the scene in the temple, that took place shortly after the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. The Gospel writers don't use the word anger to describe Jesus in those moments. However Jesus was evidently experiencing strong emotion as he overturned tables and chased out the people who had turned a place of prayer and worship into a place of business.
There is actually only one place in the Gospel record where it is mentioned that Jesus was angry. This strong feeling was not caused by sinful actions but by sinful attitudes. In Mark 3:1-6 we read of Jesus in the synagogue on a Sabbath day. His opponents were watching him when Jesus saw a man with a paralyzed hand.
They already knew his disciples broke the Sabbath laws. Now they watched to see if Jesus would dare to break the Sabbath law by doing work; would He heal this man. They felt no concern for the man but great concern for there religious laws.
Jesus knew their thinking and their attitudes and "He looked around at them with anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts", Jesus restored the man's hand to health. Hard, uncaring hearts - that is what caused Jesus to be angry.
We know that the first command is to love the Lord our God with our whole being. And the second command is to love others as we love ourselves. Of course we who are evangelicals know this law of love. But we also like to be right. We want people to act as we think they should act; and we know (or think we know) how good Christians should live.
Sometimes I don't really care very much; and I can be way too critical (not that I'd let you hear me) of other Christians. I so need to keep growing in love. I want; and I want for you, to be dominated by love as Jesus was, so that compassion flows out of us to others as it flowed from Him. May we not be so concerned about whether we or others are doing the right thing so much as concerned that they and we are acting from the central motive of love - for God and others. God looks on the heart - and expects to find in us hearts transformed by His great love.