A big misconceptions of the Gospels is the notion of Jesus as a mere ethical system to be proposed and reproduced.
In reality, quite the opposite, Jesus is taken as a clear invitation to an unparalleled existence where ethics itself is transcended - beyond the plain and vain religious laws that'd been enforced up to that moment.
Instead, it offers followers the minimalist idea the individual should simply experience and be led by the consummation by love: shall agape be the hallmark behind one's dignity and fate.
It is the inception of values; the ether common to any righteous undertaking.
Love simplifies, purifies and straightens; it doesn't stand the same contradictions and constraints of an inflexible, hypocritical and mildly vicious ethical system.
As best summarized by the modest words of Paul:
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. (Colossians 3:14)