As he lay in a ditch, a temple priest and a temple functionary both noticed him but hurried past. Then a member of another tribe, a Samaritan, saw him. The Samaritan was immediately moved and ...
Perhaps the most famous Samaritan is one who never existed ... from traveling frequently to Jerusalem to worship at the Temple. While Israelites in the Kingdom of Judah looked down on these ...
Jesus was asked to confirm what he meant by the word ‘neighbour’. This is when he told the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), to explain that people should love everyone ...
In the story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus seems to come down on the side of the broadest possible application of the love ethic. And by emphasizing a particular type of love – the gut-wrenching kind – ...