Jesus was only peeved with those who should have known better -- his own followers and the religious/political Jewish elite. Thank God, his true followers finally took a cue from him and learned what it meant to be his disciple (better late than never). Most of the elite never did learn that lesson, and were lost.


Sound familiar?


As they say: "The more things change.... (the more things stay the same!).


As for Jesus getting in unbelievers' faces -- other than for that one minor interchange with the Samarian woman at the well, he left them alone. His mission was to preach the Good News to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, not to the "heathen".


Good reminder, OP.