Merkel Church Of Christ

History has tamed Jesus but the New Testament writings tell a different story. Jesus was filled with emotions: joy, gladness, anger, grief.  One exchange with the Pharisees and Scribes displays the anger Jesus felt toward the way they had contaminated the religion of God’s chosen people.   At the end of seven (maybe eight) statements of judgment (Woes) Jesus seems to work himself into fever pitch and calls them a common expression of the day: You serpents, you brood of ...