S4E17: The Parable of the Good Samaritan
The Apocalyptic Gospel Podcast
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The Importance of Ritual Purity in the Mishnah
Going down is definitely trying to hint that Or trying to insinuate that he's not going to Jerusalem to perform priestly duty So that's not the concern. Jewish tradition would later even highlight And I guess we should say here that most of these assumptions are functioning Assuming that when Jesus says he was left for dead, that he either was dead or he could have been dead and so they avoided him because they thought he could be dead. In the Mishnah The Jewish tradition actually says that even if a priest sees a body And there's no one else around to deal with it, that it should be the priest's responsibility to deal with that dead body. Then he can deal with the ritual purity
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