Jesus Attitude Towards Outcasts Analysis
To what extent was Jesus’ attitude towards outcasts a departure from Judaism?
From reading Luke (bible) we can see that some of Jesus’ attitudes towards outcasts demonstrated a departure from Judaism. In Judaism in particularly in that time period it was wrong for a person deemed “unclean” which implies diseased or not of a Jewish background to make contact with a chosen one (Jew). Gentiles in this time were seen as unclean therefore one of Jesus’; messages towards outcasts the “Good Samaritan” (Luke 10:25-37) in which Jesus tells his audience that a person probably a Jew was left and deserted by prominent people in the Jewish society, a priest and a Levite (a member of the tribe of Levi), partly due to the fact that if he was dead, diseased or a gentile it was seen as wrong. But Jesus then goes on to say that it was in fact a Samaritan, which was seen as a direct insult to the Jews, as at this time the Jews and Samaritans were being very hostile to each other. He then continued to ask the prompting question, “Which of these three men proved to be a neighbour to the man?” implying it was in fact the Samaritan a race the Jews disliked. Messages like this show how in fact Jesus’ attitude towards outcasts was a …show more content…
Throughout Jesus’s life he still kept hold of his fundamental Jewish beliefs such as reading from the Torah and preaching in the Synagogue, which we gather from the Inaugural Sermon (Luke 4:14-30). This in addition to his sending of the leper to the Pharisee proves he was still respectful and abided by the majority of Jewish laws. As Tuckett writes “Jesus was teaching daily in the temple, presence in the temple is a regular pattern for the Luken Jesus” proving that it was not just one occurrence but in fact it was a regular practice much like any other Jewish male of his
From reading Luke (bible) we can see that some of Jesus’ attitudes towards outcasts demonstrated a departure from Judaism. In Judaism in particularly in that time period it was wrong for a person deemed “unclean” which implies diseased or not of a Jewish background to make contact with a chosen one (Jew). Gentiles in this time were seen as unclean therefore one of Jesus’; messages towards outcasts the “Good Samaritan” (Luke 10:25-37) in which Jesus tells his audience that a person probably a Jew was left and deserted by prominent people in the Jewish society, a priest and a Levite (a member of the tribe of Levi), partly due to the fact that if he was dead, diseased or a gentile it was seen as wrong. But Jesus then goes on to say that it was in fact a Samaritan, which was seen as a direct insult to the Jews, as at this time the Jews and Samaritans were being very hostile to each other. He then continued to ask the prompting question, “Which of these three men proved to be a neighbour to the man?” implying it was in fact the Samaritan a race the Jews disliked. Messages like this show how in fact Jesus’ attitude towards outcasts was a …show more content…
Throughout Jesus’s life he still kept hold of his fundamental Jewish beliefs such as reading from the Torah and preaching in the Synagogue, which we gather from the Inaugural Sermon (Luke 4:14-30). This in addition to his sending of the leper to the Pharisee proves he was still respectful and abided by the majority of Jewish laws. As Tuckett writes “Jesus was teaching daily in the temple, presence in the temple is a regular pattern for the Luken Jesus” proving that it was not just one occurrence but in fact it was a regular practice much like any other Jewish male of his