The ecstatic vision and social program sought to rebuild a society upward from its grass roots but on principles of religious and economic egalitarianism, with free healing brought directly to the peasant homes and free sharing of whatever they had in return. The deliberate conjunction of magic and meal, miracle and table, free compassion and open commensality, was a challenge launched not just at Judaism’s strictest purity regulations, or even at the Mediterranean’s patriarchal combination of honor and shame, patronage and clientage, but at civilization’s eternal inclination to draw lines, invoke boundaries, establish hierarchies, and maintain discriminations. John Dominic Crossan
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In the story from the Gospel of Mark, Jesus says that his kingdom is not of this world. In other words, he did not want to lead a group of people who would build a government based on a rigid separation between the things of this world and the things of the Kingdom, or spiritual world. He wanted to build a society based on "hope" and "love" and to bring "freedom".

Source: The Historical Jesus: The Life Of A Mediterranean Jewish Peasant

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