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Did Jesus tempt others?

According to the New Testament Bible, Jesus never tempted others. He did not tempt people.

If Jesus had have tempted others, He would have sinned, but the Bible teaches that He was without sin. On the contrary, others tried to tempt Him often. Read about that here.

The New Testament Bible teaches that God doesn’t tempt man, and Jesus was one with God as the Son of God. 



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What kind of nature did Jesus have?

According to the New Testament Bible, Jesus’ nature was perfect and sinless.

Jesus was a person of impeccable (true and perfect) character. And He did possess a unique, human character. He did not lack the attributes of human nature. He simply lacked sin. Jesus expressed emotions like anyone else, but in the right way. In the New Testament Gospel of John, chapter 11, the Bible records “Jesus wept.” This is the shortest verse in the Bible and shows that Jesus clearly had feelings.

Jesus’ nature expressed love, grace, mercy, compassion, kindness, goodness, understanding, righteous just and anger (i.e. He was angry at injustice, hypocrisy, unrighteousness etc.).  Jesus reflected the nature of His Father. 

According to I John 4:8 in the New Testament God is Love. Since Jesus was one with God the Father, He too was love and His nature expresses love.

Jesus’s nature was divine inasmuch as He was one with His heavenly Father and was God’s Son.  

Jesus did not have a sin nature. Click here to read an article explaining that Jesus did not have a sin nature.



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Did Jesus express love?

According to the New Testament Bible, Jesus was love incarnate (in human form). We see that Jesus expressed love to every sector of the human race.  We see in the Gospels that Jesus was often with children and desired that they be loved and considered. 

In the New Testament Gospel of John, chapter 11, the Bible records “Jesus wept.” This is the shortest verse in the Bible and shows Jesus love for the people.

When one of Jesus’s closest friends, Lazarus, died,  Jesus showed compassion for Lazarus’s family; He resurrected Lazarus (see the Gospel of John, chapter 11).

Jesus’s nature expressed love because He reflected the nature of His father. 

According to I John 4:8 in the New Testament God is Love. Since Jesus was one with God the Father, He too was love and His nature expresses love.

According to the New Testament Gospel of John chapter 8, when some Jewish leaders wanted to stone to death an adulterous woman, Jesus, showed love to her and said,  “ I do not condemn you, go and sin no more”. 



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Did Jesus express anger?

The New Testament Bible depicts an episode when Jesus demonstrated anger  in the temple. Jesus became very angry upon seeing many money changers in the temple-- a place normally associated with worship and praying to God.

The people were using the temple as a place to make money. (They were also cheating by giving people back less in the exchange of currency.) Jesus anger was so great that He took a whip and lashed it, scattering the crowd. Jesus’s anger was righteous reflecting the Father’s desire to see His house used for prayer not for unjust and lucrative gain.

The biographies of Jesus in the New Testament depict Jesus displaying His anger for good cause:

http://www.jesuscentral.com/ji/life-of-jesus-ancient/biography-of-jesus-christ/who-is-Jesus-by-matthew/gospel-of-matthew-21_12-17.php

http://www.jesuscentral.com/ji/life-of-jesus-ancient/biography-of-jesus-christ/who-is-Jesus-by-luke/gospel-of-luke-19_45-48.php

http://www.jesuscentral.com/ji/life-of-jesus-ancient/biography-of-jesus-christ/who-is-Jesus-by-mark/gospel-of-mark-11_12-19.php

http://www.jesuscentral.com/ji/life-of-jesus-ancient/biography-of-jesus-christ/who-is-Jesus-by-john/gospel-of-john-2_12-25.php



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Did Jesus express disappointment?

According to the New Testament Bible, it is difficult to say if Jesus really expressed disappointment inasmuch as He was one with God the Father. Therefore He knew all things. He did not expect anything from anyone. People are usually disappointed when what they expect does not happen.

However, on a human level, one could say that Jesus was disappointed when His own family and people from His community did not receive Him as a man of God.  In the Gospel of Mark the Bible says that He was amazed by their lack of faith. Another story depicts a rich young ruler that had come to Jesus so as to follow Him.  When this rich ruler expressed he had kept all the commandments to follow Jesus, Jesus told him that he needed to sell all his possessions to follow Jesus.  The rich ruler had much wealth and chose not to sell it. He did not choose to follow Jesus. Jesus was saddened by this outcome. This could be seen as disappointment.



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Did Jesus express compassion?

According to the New Testament Bible, Jesus expressed compassion frequently. He expressed compassion wherever He went. He healed out of compassion. 

In the New Testament Gospel of John, chapter 11, the Bible records is the shortest verse in the Bible, “Jesus wept.” This story is the record of when one of Jesus’s closest friends, Lazarus. Jesus showed compassion for Lazarus’s family; He resurrected Lazarus (see the Gospel of John, chapter 11).

According to the New Testament Gospel of John chapter 8, when some Jewish leaders wanted to stone to death an adulterous woman, Jesus, shoed love to her and said,  “ I do not condemn you, go and sin no more”.

Jesus was divine compassion incarnate (in human form). He was filled with compassion. He was overflowing with compassion. In His human form, He knew what it was like to suffer and He had compassion for mankind. In His divine form, He knew what it was like to suffer since God knows everything. And God is love therefore He is also compassion. Jesus and God are one so Jesus is the very expression of God’s compassion.

Jesus showed the greatest compassion by dying for mankind on the cross. He died to pay for the sins of mankind. 



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Did Jesus express sorrow?

According to the New Testament Bible, Jesus expressed sorrow many times and in many ways. 

In the Garden of Gethsemane, before Jesus was taken to be tried and then crucified, He sweat drops of blood. This was from heartbreak and sorrow. Jesus was sorrowful over the state of mankind and over the price He would pay to save mankind.

Click here to read about Jesus’ sorrow over Jersusalem.

When one of Jesus’s closest friends, Lazarus, died, Jesus wept for sorrow– partly for Lazarus’s family, but also because the people did not trust Jesus to intervene (see the Gospel of John, chapter 11). 



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Did Jesus express fear?

This question is a difficult one to evaluate because the New Testament does not specifically say that Jesus expressed fear.

According to New Testament Bible, some people may think that Jesus expressed fear about the way He would be die.  Some may interpret His sorrow in the Garden of Gethsemane before being captured then crucified as fear. Some may think that when He prayed this prayer, it was a sign of fear, “If it be at all possible, Father take this cup from Me.” However, Jesus also prayed, “But not my will, but Yours be done.” Such surrender of the will depicts total trust in the Father.

In some ways, trust and fear would seem to be incompatible. However, in His human form, in His human weakness, Jesus no doubt feared the pain of the crucifixion. He knew that this was one of the most painful ways a person could die. He would have apprehended it as a human being. Yet, as God’s Son who could have saved Himself, He still chose to go through with it.



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Did Jesus express strength?

According to the New Testament Bible, Jesus expressed spiritual strength. He also expressed physical strength at times. We see this in the Gospels when He turned tables over in the temple to show His anger towards the money changers. Read about it here.

Jesus would also have been somewhat physically strong as a carpenter.

However, Jesus also expressed physical weakness in His human form many times. He was weak from fasting 40 days and 40 nights.

Read here in Matthew’s Gospel about Jesus’ weakness.

Jesus was also very weak after being whipped 39 times, not eating and being provoked for hours. He was too weak to carry His own cross and another man had to do it for Him. 



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Did Jesus express weakness?

According to the New Testament Bible, Jesus expressed physical weakness in His human form many times. He was weak from fasting 40 days and 40 nights.

Read here in Matthew’s Gospel about Jesus’ weakness.

Jesus was also very weak after being whipped 39 times, not eating and being provoked for hours. He was too weak to carry His own cross and another man had to do it for Him.

However, He was not weak per se. He was strong spiritually and He would also have been somewhat robust or strong as a carpenter. 



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