"[T]he explicit condemnation of earthly treasures ... and the negative attitudes toward wealth ... suggest that the [Q] group was intentionally trying to appeal to the peasant class. Typically, it is this set of sayings that have caused many scholars to assume that the message of Jesus was well received by the Galilean peasants.
"But the ideology of this Jesus Movement appears to transcend or breach the bounds of acceptable ideology for the security-seeking agrarian villagers. For instance, there are many sayings that ask the audience to take risks or give up possessions that are rightfully theirs, and abandon their traditional kinship based obligations and lifestyles. These demands were unacceptable to peasants who valued the security measures available in the traditional village setting."
-- Richard A. Horsley, ORAL PERFORMANCE, POPULAR TRADITION, AND HIDDEN TRANSCRIPT IN Q (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies Issue 60, 2006), p. 174.
"The Jubilee year was mainly instituted in order to prevent violent changes in the tenure of lands (Lev. xxv. 23 et seq.). The land, the law declares, properly belongs to YHWH, who is sole landlord, while all the Israelites are but his tenants. Therefore the land must not be sold in perpetuity. It may be leased, or its crops may be sold; but in the Jubilee year the land returns to its original owner."
-- Jewish Encyclopedia, "Agrarian Laws", 1906
"In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession by inheritance."
-- Leviticus 27:24
