All Christians cherry-pick what to accept and not accept in the bible. That said, Jesus did say something to the effect of "let he who is without sin, cast the first stone." So, he advocated the ending of stoning as a punishment. He saw its raw brutality and didn't agree with it.
Almost all Jews have ceased abiding by the ancient brutal laws of the Old Testament.
I always keep in mind that all three Abrahamic religions were written in an era that so primitive and steeped in superstition that it even preceded the Dark Ages.
It doesn't matter whether he quoted his scripture correctly or not, but how he always behaved toward those with differing opinions. He was polite and let them speak freely on their side of issues.
The left can't even begin to have some measure of decency as all we hear out of it is hatred, threats and lies, calling those that disagree, Fascists, Nazis and a threat to Democracy, which is exactly what the left is, a threat to Democracy in that it hates to allow opposing views and would arrest those that oppose them if they could.