To begin with, life for our peasant was hard.
But by the time Herod Antipas came to rule Galilee, these ideas were difficult to reconcile with the realities of the average Jewish peasant’s existence. Devout Jews in this period had inherited a theology whereby they were the Chosen People of God who lived in the Promised Land granted to them by him. If in the early first century AD a preacher appeared in a Galilean village proclaiming repentance in the face of an imminent cosmic apocalypse, most listeners would have been familiar with his message and many would have welcomed it.
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