Jesus Behaving Badly: The Fig Tree Incident
It’s
hard to act mature all of the time… even for the Son of God. The gospels contain a number of incidents in
which Jesus gets annoyed or angry.
Today, we are going to look at two versions of a story about how Jesus
gets pissed off and kills a fig tree. I don’t
want to be too hard on Jesus, because he was hungry and I know how cranky I
get, when I’m starving, but nonetheless, shouldn’t we expect better behavior
from someone who is supposed to be God in human form?