Jesus shocks the lawyer with a parable about a man who is robbed, beaten, and left for dead. A priest and Levite (servant to priests) come by but do not stop to help the man. But then a Samaritan comes along who tends to the man and pays to put him up in an inn until he recovers. We miss the shocking nature of this parable because we don’t understand just how much Jews hated Samaritans. o admit that it was the Samaritan who was a true neighbor to this man and not a fellow Jew would have been hard for the lawyer.

The Good Samaritan