The popular image of Christ as ‘gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ simply will not do. It is a false image. To be sure, he was full of love, compassion and tenderness. But he was also uninhibited in exposing error and denouncing sin, especially hypocrisy… The evangelists portray him as constantly debating with the leaders of contemporary Judaism … Christ was a controversialist.

–Dr. John R.W. Stott, Christ the Controversialist  49