Jesus came out of the Jewish tradition of seeing God's immanence everywhere, in forces as simple and powerful as a mustard seed and yeast. Later, as a rabbi, he took the leap of seeing the divine Kingdom in how one person relates to another. But even as a child, Jesus saw God's Kingdom not simply as a hoped for future — he had a direct intuition of how his Abba, moment by moment, was reshaping the world and humanity.
— Bruce Chilton, Rabbi Jesus