Dorothy Sayers... “The people who [crucified] Christ never...accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.

We have efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him "meek and mild" and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale [pastors] and pious old ladies.”

Luke 8:25b
...In fear and amazement they asked one another, "Who is this?"

Fred Hoyle (Cambridge University, astronomer and mathematician, atheist)...
“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”

Luke 8:42b-44
42…As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. 43And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. 44She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.

A walking picture of helplessness . . .

* Socially helpless
* Religiously helpless
* Professionally helpless
* Financially helpless
* Physically helpless
* Emotionally helpless