Jesus answers, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone." It is clear that Jesus recognized that he was being handed the persona of being good, and he immediately handed it back. . . . Jesus was quite tolerant of most human frailties, but he was indignant at this identification with the persona, and concealing of the Shadow, because it was psychologically dishonest, and led to self-righteousness, lack of compassion, and spiritual rigidity.
— John A. Sanford, Evil: The Shadow Side of Reality