"Woe unto you, hypocrites, for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves."[8]
"Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"[9]
"If I should say I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you."[10]
"All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers."[11]
"Ye fools and blind."[12]
This language may have been necessary, in Jesus' opinion, to convince his hearers of their sins, but such vituperation does not become a modern ethical teacher.
Two acts of Jesus, consistent with his disregard of worldly goods, were destructive in character.
"And there was a good way off from them a herd of many swine feeding. So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters."[13]
Jesus did what the devils requested, cruelly killing two thousand inoffensive valuable animals that belonged to other people.