Due to this hatred, some think that the lawyer's phrase "The one who had mercy on him" ( Luke 10:37) may indicate a reluctance to name the Samaritan. Tensions between them were particularly high in the early decades of the 1st century because Samaritans had desecrated the Jewish Temple at Passover with human bones. The Samaritans, reciprocally, hated the Jews. Jesus' target audience, the Jews, hated Samaritans to such a degree that they destroyed the Samaritans' temple on Mount Gerizim. Jericho is just north of the Dead Sea, with Jerusalem to the west. Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."Ī map of Israel in the time of Jesus.
Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.' Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?" On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. But a certain Samaritan, as he travelled, came where he was. In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Do this, and you will live."īut he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?" He said to him, "You have answered correctly. He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind and your neighbour as yourself."
He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?" In the Gospel of Luke chapter 10, the parable is introduced by a question, known as the Great Commandment:īehold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" The phrase " Good Samaritan", meaning someone who helps a stranger, derives from this parable, and many hospitals and charitable organizations are named after the Good Samaritan. The parable has inspired painting, sculpture, satire, poetry, photography, and film. Others, however, discount this allegory as unrelated to the parable's original meaning and see the parable as exemplifying the ethics of Jesus. Some Christians, such as Augustine, have interpreted the parable allegorically, with the Samaritan representing Jesus Christ, who saves the sinful soul. The conclusion is that the neighbor figure in the parable is the one who shows mercy to the injured fellow man-that is, the Samaritan. Jesus is described as telling the parable in response to a provocative question from a lawyer, "And who is my neighbor?", in the context of the Great Commandment. Although Samaritans and Jews despised each other, the Samaritan helps the injured man. Finally, a Samaritan happens upon the traveler. First, a Jewish priest and then a Levite come by, but both avoid the man. It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to be Jewish) who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.
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