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One thing is that although Jesus is seen (and Im sure saw himself) as a moderniser of Judaism, he was also in some ways more strict than Moses - Moses permitted divorce because of human weakness for example, but Jesus encouraged his followers not to divorce at all.
Partly it could be put down to Jesus background.. after all it should be remembered that for most of his life he avoided urban area's and preached to the kind of rural people he had known and grown up with... so maybe a function of that was his conservatisim on some issues. But of course, if you think Jesus was a divine being, the context of his life on earth becomes less relevant, because he represents then the voice of God, unmoved by any human conditioning.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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