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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Luke 15

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The audience of Luke 15 is given in the first two verses of the passage; there are tax collectors and sinners that came to Jesus and then the Pharisees and scribes (Luke 15:1-2). In those times it was very strange for a Pharisee to be with a sinner, because there would be the potential of pollution that the Pharisee might get which would make him unclean and look the purity that they had. Jesus on the other hand “shows a striking willingness to cross lines of purity in regard to other, potentially polluting human beings that many of his contemporaries would not cross because of their concern to guard against defilement. Jesus does this, however, in order to bring the unclean, the defiled and the sinner back to a state of cleanness, wholeness
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