The Parable of the Good Samaritan that Jesus taught in Luke 10: 30-37 was in response to a Jewish lawyer’s question as to who exactly was his neighbor that he had to love? Robbers had left a man beaten and clinging to life when a Samaritan came upon him. He didn’t see a Jew that despised his culture, but a person needing help… and he refused to walk away as a Priest and Levite (both respected religious figures) and done earlier. The Samaritan didn’t know how the man got there…unconscious, bleeding and lying by the side of the road…all he saw was someone who desperately needed help. But neither did he judge, condemn, chastise, or desert him like the others. Instead, he offered unexpected kindness, active compassion, and mercy beyond the cultural boundaries between the two of them. So when Jesus asked the lawyer which man “loved his neighbor?”… the lawyer had to admit it was the person he least expected or wanted to love. To this Jesus said to him, “You go and do likewise.”
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