In this first example, Jesus clears the temple:
“In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, ‘Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade'” (John 2:14-16 ESV).
Do you think the people that he whipped felt his love and would they describe Jesus as loving? Jesus also frequently referred to the scribes and Pharisees as hypocrites:
“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.” (Matthew 23:12-13 ESV).
Do you think that these religious leaders would describe Jesus as loving? Jesus was actually warning these religious leaders because they did not measure up to God’s standards. He was warning them that if they did not change they would face God’s judgment.