What kind of teachering was Jesus giving?

Reading more of The Challenge of Jesus by N. T. Wright and really enjoying it. Spurring lots of fresh thoughts on Jesus and the gospels.

Jesus was not primarily a "teacher" in the sense that we usually give that word. Jesus did things and then commented on them, explained them, challenged people to figure out what they meant. He acted practically and symbolically, not least through his remarkable works of healing --- works that today all but the most extreme skeptics are forced to regard as in principle historical. In particular, he acted and spoke in such a way that people quickly came to regard him as a prophet. Though, as we shall see, Jesus saw himself as much more than a prophet, that was the role he adopted in his early public career, following on as he did from the prophetic work of John the Baptist. He intended to be preceived, and  was indeed preceived, as a prophet announcing the kingdom of God.

Particularly, the idea that Jesus did things and then commented on them really explains it well - Jesus' strategy of teaching.

And it was his remarkable healings, almost certainly, that won him a hearing. He was not a teacher who also healed; he was a prophet of the kingdom, first enacting and then explaining that kingdom.  ... Jesus' parables were not simply shrewd stories about human life and motivation. Nor were they simply childish illustrations, earthly stories with heavenly meanings. Again and again they are rooted in the Jewish Scriptures, in the Jewish narratives that were told and retold officially and unofficially.