"He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee.
They know all about rule and power, about kingdom and empire, but they.
He speaks about the rule of God and they listen as much from curiosity as anything else.
He looks like a beggar yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the proper whine, his walk the proper shuffle.
He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between poverty and destitution. "He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee