This importance of this passage in the world today is placing others first, caring for people and serving them. If the people of today do this, our world would be a much enhanced place of Jesus’ followers showing everyone peace and harmony.
We can live our lives as the followers of Jesus by travelling to him every day for your foot washing, so that it can remind ourselves of the cleansing that came during Jesus’ death on the cross, a consequence of his humility and service to us. The foot washing act is helpful in clarifying the outcomes of the cross, since the cross event is not instantly obvious in its transferable effect, to offer ourselves in a modest service of God through assisting his people and to check in together on how we are doing at being humble servants of another as a church. Foot washing does something further than the bread and cup; it shifts the disciples from recipients to contestants in the continuing ministry of the body of Christ.
The Good Samaritan:
The main message of this passage is that a good person facilitates another in need, even if the person is an enemy or someone unbearable. Another message is, according to the Gospel every woman and man is a neighbour, despise of their race, ancestors or faiths and to love your neighbour as you would like to be loved.
The main decision in this story is that the Samaritan chose to help the man who was injured. This shows that the Samaritan was the true neighbour as he has sympathy on the victim and helped him without counting the cost of the man’s wounds. This tells us about Jesus’ understanding of the world and his mission because, he wants all to help people in need and more people are doing it day by day. On another level it shows that Jesus has compassion on the unloved and loved; no one is below his care.
The value and principle in this story is that every woman and man is one of our own or a stranger. Love for one’s own must not fill up our whole heart to such extent that no place remains in it for showing consideration to strangers. The parable of the Good Samaritan, as also the whole Gospel remove the limits between our concept of who is near and who is far. For God, no one is far and all men and women are near, all are his valuable creations.
The similarities between these two passages is that the greater man always helped out comparable to Jesus washing his disciple’s feet and the Samaritan helping the wounded man. At the beginning of the story both of them got rejected by Peter stoping Jesus washing his feet and the wounded man getting discarded by the Levite and priest.
The difference between these two passages is that they both have different morals. Both of these passages have a different setting John 13:1-17 is set in a church and Luke 10:25-37 is set on a rocky road to Jericho.
The relevance that the Good Samaritan has on the contemporary world today is to show people no matter if you are big or small everyone helps out in situations, just like the Samaritan did. We can live our lives as the followers of Jesus by treating people the way you would like to be treated, the Samaritan did this when he saw the injured man and took great care of him; then Jesus rewarded him. Therefore if you treat people the way you would like to be treated then you will be loved by Jesus and good things will happen to you.
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Puja Nagaria
