The world is my parish. The Pharisees complained that Jesus went to dinner parties with tax collectors and sinners .
Sociologists assign people to upper, middle, and lower classes.
In industrialized nations, the middle class is relatively large. In Palestine in the time of Jesus, what we know as middle class was rather small. It was made up of professional people such as shopkeepers, tradesmen, fishermen, and educated people such as the Pharisees and scribes. Being a carpenter, Jesus most likely belonged to this class. Even smaller than the middle class was the upper class.