NOTES for Luk 19:11
The evangelists more than once mention that during His earthly ministry Jesus visited very different houses. Including houses in which, from the point of view of the pious religious people of that time, it was simply improper to be. But Jesus pays no attention to accepted opinions. He goes where He considers it necessary to go and associates with those with whom He considers it necessary to associate. And the point, of course, is not that He is seeking scandal or wants to shock respectable society. The point is simply His ministry. And His earthly path.
A path that in general was determined not by society with its standards and opinions, but by His heavenly Father. Yet the character of His ministry mattered as well. Jesus Himself said that it is not the healthy who need a physician, but the sick. One cannot be a physician and associate exclusively with healthy and prosperous people. Of course, in all this there was yet another side, which today we usually call ritual. Although it would perhaps be more accurate to call it the problem of preserving purity.
Defilement was the main problem for Jewish religious society. And not only Jewish society: the fear of defilement has been characteristic of religious consciousness in every age. This is understandable: defilement obstructs sanctification, obstructs God's action on a person. Defilement separates a person from God, and whatever a person does, as long as he is unclean, everything is useless.
Moreover, after becoming defiled, a person rolls backward in his relationship with God: once defiled, all his "spiritual achievements," as people sometimes say, go to waste. And communication with conscious sinners, being with them in one house or even more at one table, was considered in those days to defile in itself, even if the one associating with such people did nothing bad himself.
Jesus associates precisely with such people, from whom one can become defiled. Of course, if He were an ordinary person, everything would have been exactly so, or close to what the pious people around Him expected. But He bears within Himself the whole fullness of the Kingdom. A fullness that surpasses every sinfulness. Therefore defilement is not dangerous for Him. For every defilement is the triumph of sin. And sin has no place in the Kingdom, so no impurity is dangerous to the Messiah.