Didn’t Jesus care about how people felt when He taught?

The truth mattered more to Jesus than how people felt about it or Him. He wasn’t looking for ways just to make people like Him; He was calling people who were willing to bow to Him unconditionally as their Lord. He wasn’t interested in reinforcing the common-ground beliefs where His message overlapped with the Pharisees’ worldview. On the contrary, Jesus stressed (almost exclusively) the points on which He disagreed with them. He never acted as if the best way to turn people away from the damnable heresies of Pharisee-religion was to make His message sound as much as possible like the popular beliefs of the day. Instead, He stressed (and reiterated again and again) the points of doctrine that were most at odds with the conventional wisdom of Pharisaism.