Those who understood the need of sinful mankind would be moved to tears at the account. Ah, this had to be the boy Savior. Those who only saw things through worldly eyes would be oh, what an impossible goody two-shoes kid this was, why can’t he even dust it up once with the playground bully, with the way he can melt through a crowd and get away after he does it?
“why can’t he even dust it up once with the playground bully”
In the same way that He dusted it up with the money changers?
I can see Him knocking a bully in the dirt if it were the right thing to do.
Christianity is neither a suicide pact nor insanely pacifistic.