Follow Jesus? But NOBODY can be sure what Jesus said!
There have been books upon books written telling us that virtually everything did and taught can be found in earlier works/myths.
There is also more than a suspicion that "things" were added to Jesus' teaching for various ulterior motives.

The story that always bother me is the one where Jesus talks about a land owner who needed men to work in his fields. The landowner goes out in the morning and hires a number of men to work all day and they agree on a wage.
Later in the day, the land owner realizes that he will need more men and hire a number.
At the end of the day, the land owner pays the men who have worked all day AND the men who have worked only half a day the same amount.
When the men who have worked all day complain, the landowner simple tells them that he has paid them the agreed rate and that if he wishes to pay the other men the same wage, for only half the work, that - in effect - is too bad

Now, surely that was inserted by some land owning Roman!

Who, today, would not feel aggrieved, to find that a fellow worker was being paid twice as much money for doing the same job.

A lot of what is attributed to Jesus is very impressive, but I'm afraid the reality is that "Jesus" is just a pastishe of wise sayings.

Which is not a bad thing, as long as we leave it there, and forget the "God thing", the walking on water etc.