warning against false teachers and denouncing the sins of the times

We are told that so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another. And what does our Lord do? In the hearing of this multitude He delivers warnings against false teachers, and denounces the sins of the times in which He lived unsparingly, unflinchingly, and without partiality. This was true charity. This was doing the work of a physician. This was the pattern which all His ministers were intended to follow. Well would it have been for the church and the world if the ministers of Christ had always spoken out as plainly and faithfully as their Master used to do! Their own lives might have been made more uncomfortable by such a course of action, but they would have been far more useful to souls.

—J.C. Ryle, ‘Expository Thoughts on Luke’