Jesus said clever things like "Let the dead bury the dead."   However, only a tiny minority of modern New Testament scholarship finds a connection between these witty, anti-establismentarian sayings and the witty, anti-establismentarian sayings of the Pagan "cynic" philosophers. Why? It's simple, but it would never occur to Pikachu: Cynics are not the only people who ever made witty, anti-establishmentarian sayings. Duh.

The fact is that much of the "anti-establishment" stuff Jesus says fits readily into the mouth of a thoroughly Jewish, Galileean peasant who didn't like being throttled by the taxes levied by the Temple cultus, or the nitpicky legal views of the Pharisees.

Pikachu still has not got around to filling in any details here, but before he does, we recommend Cynic Sage or Son of God? for a detailed look at how the "Cynic Jesus" theorists (mostly Burton Mack) ignore and massage evidence to make it suit their thesis.