Jesus of the Gospels
c. 4 BCE–c. 30 CE

Five Gospel passages anchor the test: Matthew 25:31-46 (care for the hungry, sick, and stranger), Matthew 6:1-18 (refusal of piety practiced for public display), Luke 12:13-21 (warning against wealth-hoarding), Luke 1:39-45 (the traditional reading on the moral status of unborn life), and Mark 12:13-17 (a clean line between church and state). Abbott's record runs against four of these five: refusing Medicaid expansion in the state with the highest uninsured rate (Matt 25:36), signing SB 10 to mandate Ten Commandments posters in classrooms — the exact 'practice your piety not before others' pattern Matthew 6:1-6 warns against, and a Mark 12 church-state collapse at once — Operation Lone Star against migrants and ending in-state tuition for Dreamers (Matt 25:35), and his data-center deference favoring industrial-scale wealth (Luke 12). His SB 8 abortion ban earns him credit on Luke 1. Hinojosa's Medicaid-expansion plan, her quoted 'no te dejes' framing of standing with the marginalized, her data-center critique of the 'richest men in the world,' and her opposition to the SB 10 / SB 14 / SB 17 package align more closely with Matthew 25, Matthew 6, Luke 12, and Mark 12; her abortion-rights advocacy cuts against Luke 1 by most traditional Christian readings, though that verse reads differently in liberal-Protestant frameworks. Neither is an embrace, but Hinojosa is the closer fit on four of five vectors.