According to Jewish tradition, at the time of death the spirit doesn’t exactly depart. The spirit hangs around; the spirit loiters for three days. Let me read to you a text. Now, this is from a later rabbinic text, but it occurs in other locations too, and I suspect that it was an idea that was in circulation in Jesus’ time. I’m reading from the great commentary on Leviticus, Leviticus Rabbah section 18, paragraph 1, and it’s commentary on Leviticus 15:1–2. The text reads this way: “For three days