It's true that Jesus gave the religious leaders verbal lashings and could be violent towards furniture. He seems to have friendly relations with some religious leaders and we can infer how well he got on with Joseph of Arimathea. He hated hypocrisy and the way religious tradition had perverted the spirit of the law. Having said that in defence of Jesus' dealings with the these guys, I also feel sure it is a myth and was used to check rebellion in Judea.

The way I see it it's all about control: Produce guilt by setting an unattainable standard (if you think a hateful or lustful thought you may have just as well actually committed the act itself), create the harshest of punishments (eternal torture by fire), and create the loophole (accepting the faith) to gain followers and keep them coming back and giving to the church week after week. Notice that thought crime (correct me if I am not completely accurate on this aspect) and eternal damnation, only became a part of the religion when Judaism stopped being an exclusive club, and started to attempt to gain converts among gentiles.

Look it's all perfectly Straight forward, when you are your own dad who was born to a female type girl who was 14 and didn't agree to it, who you definitely did not rape, because you are god and god's son at the same time as you are a ghost, you don't have to follow your own laws, even though breaking them is worthy of burning forever in a place of ultimate evil that you created even though you are completely good and without sin, and so could have had no conception of evil in the first place.
See, QED it's all so simple!