Yes, even more puzzling is when Jesus asks the crowd to stop stoning the adulturess or calls the bad tax-collector man down to talk to Him. He asks them to change their behavior and be nicer people, hmm?
***He asks them to change their behavior and be nicer people, hmm?****
Yes, but you know, in both these cases the people could change their behavior because they had met Jesus. I think that is the key.
An encounter with Jesus will make the right kind of hear want to be good.