First, the point of Jesus’ meals—from the loaves-and-fishes ones to the bread-and-wine one—is to insist on shared meals as the mandate of divine justice in a world not our own.

If, as God asserts in Leviticus 25:23, “The land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants,” then of course the food the land produces belongs likewise to God.

If we are all tenant farmers and resident aliens on an earth not our own, then we are also invitees and guests at a table not our own.

But if one lives for divine justice in a world that belongs to God, one will usually die a violent death from human injustice in a world that refuses recognition of such ownership.