His mental awareness-idea was that people from all walks of life and all nations must accept one another. This would mean that the faults and shortcoming must be forgiven--what Jesus offers to the sinner.
His milieu might have suggested aspects of His insight: pax romana of the Roman Empire. I don't know; but He was very acknowledging of the greatness of Rome--even its coins containing the image of an King or Emperor had economic worth; and He urged their acceptance.
That is why, I believe, the road to revolutions in thought must be understood as presented to mankind via the road of mind to a possible world, as a logician might say. I have always contended that there are some apriori notions that are useful for the advancement of the species, i.e., be accepted as given truths so as to construct the world; and there are plenty that are not! Time reveals their worthiness, e.g., we await comprehending Einstein's Theory of Relativity--for which he argues, there are reasons for adaptation, if not acceptance, as ultimate truth about the world.
Maybe that's why Jesus told His disciples, "You'll do even better things than I am doing," (words to this effect, about future 'miracles').
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