The Good Samaritain Parable

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The Good Samaritan

Summary

A Jewish man is robbed as he is walking down the road going from Jerusalem to Jericho. He is left almost naked and all his positions are taken. A few minutes later a priest walks down the road. Instead of helping him, he crosses the road and acts as if he did not see the man. About an hour later a Levite walks down the road. Again as soon as he saw him he crossed the road and walked on as if he did not see the man. A few minutes later a Samaritan walks down the road. It is a well-known fact that Jews don’t like Samaritans and Samaritans don’t like Jews. Yet instead of crossing the road as the Priest and Levite did the Samaritan helps the Jewish man. He bandaged the man’s cuts, put him on his donkey and took him to the town. He took him to a hotel and gave the hotel owner to silver coins. The Samaritan told the hotel owner to look after the man and let him stay until he recovered.

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Why is the Samaritan the hero?

Jesus makes the Samaritan the hero of the story as it is how Jesus wanted everyone to behave. As everyone wants to be a hero they will all act as the Good Samaritan did to be known as a hero.  

Modern Good Samaritan

A man was on holiday in Cornwall when, while walking in a car park with a friend, he felt really weird. He was having a cardiac arrest.

He literally collapsed and died, there and then on the tarmac, age 47.

As his friend was trying to figure out what ...

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