Unclean: Luke 13:20-21: Winning Sermon in the 2006 Baptist Heritage Preaching Contest: One of the Hardest Things to Take About Jesus Is That He Kept Getting Things Wrong. His Disciples and Other Followers Tried to Help Him. They Really Did (Viewpoint Essay‪)‬

But how can you help a guy who keeps having lunch with tax collectors? What can you do for a man who is constantly touching lepers and blind people and children? What possible hope can you offer a rabbi and teacher who insists on talking to and about women all the time? And do not think the Pharisees did not notice that woman thing. Did they notice! Jesus did not just talk to nice Jewish women. Oh, no. He had to talk to prostitutes and adulteresses and Samaritans, and he had to touch women, sick women with those woman sicknesses. Jesus was constantly telling stories about woman stuff. I mean, for Pete's sake, does he have to talk about leaven? He was supposed to be a rabbi. Did he not know that leaven is unclean? Did he not read that part about how at sacred times you are supposed to prepare your bread without the leaven? Did not the leaders of his synagogue explain that leaven was then regarded as an unclean thing, which was a big deal for a people obsessed with the concept of spiritual cleanliness?