Why was Jesus so condescending and cold towards his mother?

Question

I see monotheism as the well-spring of much of the world's misogyny, and here's the guy alleged to have the perfect morality, ignoring his concerned mother so he can show off for some priests.

Later, Jesus encourages his disciples to abandon their wives and children and follow him. Home-wrecker, ungrateful son...dude even cursed a fig tree because it didn't have any fruit when he wanted some. Is this really your idea of the perfect human?

(See Matthew 12 & 21, Mark 3 & 10, and Luke 11 for the relevant passages)

Answer 1

He also said you must leave your parents in order to be his follower.

Tell you something, Jesus doesn't sound like a good person. I've read many verses in which he cursed people, yelled at them calling them serpents and pigs. This man was a dysfunctional case. I bet!

Answer 2

It's not he was cold towards his parents, This is what you have been taught and this is what you have read in the Bible. Bible which was written by mere human beings like us. Who at that time didn't think Jesus family had any place in the Bible. Since Jesus ascended from heaven, how can he fall in to emotional family traps. Have you noticed how 10 years of his life haven't been recorded?

Answer 3

I like how your name describes the way you think.

Jesus hushed his mother only when she kept pushing Him to do miracles when it was not yet His time. He encouraged others to leave their lives behind, because God MUST be FIRST in all things. like Jesus said, "Let the dead bury their own dead". As for the tree, we have been blessed with talents. The trees talent was to produce figs, when it did not utilize this talent, He took it away from the tree. Just the same, whatever talent we are blessed with, we must use to glorify Him, or they are at risk of being taken away.

Answer 4

He never was cold and condescending. He simply pointed out that we are all equally loved by Him. His Mother understood that, or she would not have been chosen.
He did however turn water into wine when she asked Him to...and...He made provision for her while He lay bleeding on the cross. John 19:25-27 To think of her while suffering is not cold at all when you think about it...

Answer 5

I think it's rather ridiculous to assume that Jesus was cold to His mother. In John 2, we find that He tells her it's not quite time to start His public ministry, but because she asked Him, He does so. At the Cross, we also find that Jesus takes care to make sure that John is going to look after Mary, even though the simple conversation itself was excruciating to Him, since He couldn't breathe, let alone talk, without pushing up on His nailed feet to take the pressure off His diaphram.

Matthew 12 & Mark 3 are not slights to Mary unless one ASSUMES that Jesus was not also including her in the group of believers whom He defined as His mother, brothers and sisters. Indeed, since we know Mary believed Jesus was the Son of God and since He used a singular "mother" and plural "brothers and sisters," it's pretty obvious that He most certainly was including Mary in that group. (One mom, Mary, but lots of brothers and sisters.) I myself have always pictured Him saying that as He rose to His feet and went through the crowd to the door to welcome Mary and His brothers into the house.

Matthew 21 is the withering fig tree -- Jesus was showing His authority over nature to build faith in Him, shortly before He laid down His life for us -- I'm not sure how one little tree dying negates the fact that He died on our behalf, but I guess if you really want to find fault, nobody can stop you.

Mark 10 includes Jesus preaching against divorce, insisting that the children come to him for blessing, encouraging the Rich Young Man to give up materialism for something better, predicting his death, explaining to the disciples that they can't request positions of honor, and healing a blind man. Yes, there's a bit about being willing to leave one's family for Christ, but when one takes all the teachings of Christ as a whole instead of out of context, we see that this is sort of a last resort. Our responsibility to share the Good News would mean that our witness in deeds and words would have our families also following Christ. In other words, there would be no need to leave one's family if they were all following Christ, too.

Luke 11 is Jesus giving us the Lord's Prayer, driving out demons, explaining the sign of Jonah, instructing His disciples on the importance of evangelism, and the six woes to the pharisees. Are you upset about the woes? Upset that Jesus stood for something and wouldn't back down when it came to challenging the status quo? I can't figure out your complaints here.

Answer 6

You know you do not have the right passages.
The pertinent chapter for you to study is Revelation.
Revelation has prophecy for the Tribulation.
We are in the Church age and this age has historical trends.
Revelation for you.
Just a little "Rapture is imminent advice"

Answer 7

Those who wrote about him were misogynists. Why would they portray their god any other way?