The Importance of Having a Synagogue Administrator

I don't know if that was like the intentional portrayal or if the actors were just kind of like having an off moment because I don't feel like their portrayals are that stiff in general but that initial conversation and maybe it was just them like as characters feeling each other out. "There's not enough in the biblical text for me to assume what chosen is going to do with it" he says about Jairus' relationship with Simon. He wants him to be a synagogue ruler so he wants to have a good relationship but doesn't know if he can be trusted.