And to be clear: the shorthand for how I figured on the meanings (within my framework of how the universe works) for what Jesus says is there was a LOT of study, reflection, seeing parallels in my own interpretation of the world, studying what laws were like in Jesus's time, reading other examinations of what Jesus actually intended by various phrases or actions, learning about the Roman Empire, the laws of the various Jewish sects, the tax system in the region where Jesus protested at the temple, etc.
What I say is mere conjecture, but it is informed conjecture that has been refined through lots of life experience and critical examination across multiple disciplines. This is how we seek truth. I don't follow what people tell me to think, and that is why I think differently than most sheeple, and why I have a tendency to spot things before other people do. That is the essence of Critical Rationalist epistemology, and coincidentally it's also been my temperament since I was little to be this way, to question, to understand logic and uncertainty and respect it. And to respect people, which is the logical consequence of this understanding.