Then the expert asked Jesus who would be the expert’s neighbor. Here Jesus tells the story of the three men who passed by a Jew that had been beaten and robbed by some nasty people on the road to Jericho. He looked kind of dead. In real life, this road was crooked and narrow so robbers could easily hide.
The first to pass was a Jewish priest. The priest performed lots of religious activities. They were to avoid unclean items like dead bodies. Touch a dead body and you could not perform your duties in the Temple as he offered the animal sacrifices for Israelites and was the only one permitted to enter the Temple’s Most Holy Place.
Next was a Levite, representing following lots of Jewish rules. Levites, from the tribe of Levi, had temple responsibilities but different from priests. We can speculate these two men were afrai ...
