The Sermon on the Mount remains the test because it asks the questions that captured power avoids. Who is blessed here? Who is seen? Who is comforted? Who is disciplined? Who is silenced? Who gets to name righteousness? Who gets mercy? Who is made into an enemy? Who absorbs the cost of the order?

For those who hold more than they can measure,
and release what they cannot own.

The hand that opens becomes the gate;
through its narrowness, abundance learns proportion.
Each mirrored sphere returns the same question:
What have I kept that was not mine to keep?

— from The Needle and the Ledger