"Jesus is not portrayed as friend to sex workers in any first- or second-century text"

"Having shown that Jesus is not portrayed as friend to sex workers in any first- or second-century text, I have looked to medieval fiction for the source of this misunderstanding[,] . . . [which] is medieval preaching and fiction."

     Anthony Le Donne, "Did Jesus befriend sex workers?," Journal for the study of the historical Jesus 20 (2022):  155 (147-155).