"I have come to bring fire..."

Moving on in Luke13:10, the author gives a narrative of Jesus teaching in the synagogue and upon seeing a woman who was sick, He went over to her and healed her. A leader in charge of the synagogue blew up and said that there were six days out of the week that a person could be healed and criticized Jesus for healing on the Sabbath.

For those of you who prefer the sweet, patient, non confrontational, pliant and sweet Jesus of books and movies, I am sorry to disappoint you. The Jesus of the bible confronted His critic (and Satan) and called him a hypocrite. After that, He went on to lay out for the man the many ways that religious men failed to live up to the very law that He was accused of breaking. This confrontation, shamed the critics of Jesus and caused the crowd to rejoice.

We are always trying to make Jesus to be something that He is not. People use a false image of Jesus when they tell us that Jesus was just a peaceful guy who avoided confrontation when in fact He tells that He has come to bring fire to the earth. We have religious leaders as well as secular leaders always telling us of their version of Jesus with the intention of getting us to follow them lockstep. The Jesus that I know is the Jesus in this verse, one who heals those of us who are or have been in the grips of Satan and He is not afraid of confronting His enemies in the past, today or tomorrow.