meant leaving everything as it was, for antinomianism is often intensely conservative. But that is not what Jesus was about (cf. Luke 4:16–30). Rather, Jesus was seeking to shift the focus from concerns about boundaries—that is, regarding “who’s in” and “who’s out”—to concerns about ethos and action—that is, regarding what kind of people Israel and the nations needed to be (and to become) in the light of God’s coming in mercy and judgment. If the accent of these first two parables falls most heavily