Surprisingly there are few references to Jesus every being angry. Often cited is the temple cleansing, but it never stated that Jesus was angry. The New American Commentary offers some comment in Mark 10:14 where Jesus becomes “indignant” when children are prevented from coming to him.
10:14 Both Matt 19:14 and Luke 18:16 omit the statement that Jesus was indignant, no doubt to avoid any thought of Jesus being guilty of a sinful passion. This is sometimes said to be the only example in the Gospels of Jesus being angry, but see 3:5 and the comments on 1:41 and compare the accounts of the cleansing of the temple. The variant reading in 1:41, however, employs a different Greek verb from the one here; and the cleansing accounts do not explicitly state that Jesus was angry.
James A. Brooks, vol. 23, Mark, electronic ed., Logos Library System; The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2001, c1991), 159.
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