Question: What were the respective classes of the two men who passed by the victim in Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan?
Answer: A priest and a Levite (Luke 10:31-32)
Comments: The great Peter Rhea Jones noted that though both the priest and Levite pass the victim, there are subtle differences in their reactions in the Greek. Jones poses that the Levite may have drawn neaer and looked more carefully than the priest. (Jones, Studying the Parables, p. 302).
And by chance a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. (Luke 10:31-32, NASB)
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