Who is this Fellow?

Readings: Luke 10:25-37

Then came a Samaritan, as he journeyed, to that place; and when he saw him, he had compassion. (Luke 10:33)

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Year: reading: Matthew 1-4

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Who is this Fellow? - The parable of the Samaritan used Jesus to answer questions a scribe of a fellow human being. Uniquely, Jesus compares the priests and Levites attitude with the attitude of the Samaritans.

Priests and Levites were leaders of the religious, the very people keeping chastity. They avoid the victim of robbery because it can be so considered him dead, and touched the corpse would defile them (see Lev. 2:11).

The Samaritans, in contrast, has a very low reputation in the eyes of the nation of Israel. Their ancestors people Israel marries mix with Gentiles, and enforcing its own worship layout. Resentment is so great that until the term "Samaritans" is used to refer to people who possessed by Satan (cf. Jn 8:32). And it is these people, to help the victim. Without much consideration. He willingly were beset by its schedule and distracted. He drove the robbers attacked participate risk. He is also willing to bear the costs of maintenance. And, if the victim of the Jews, he will be booed because of his neighbors helped the enemy. How expensive the price of kindness!

Martin Luther King Jr. commented on the story, "the question of priests and Levites: ' if I stop and help these people, what will happen to me? ' The good Samaritan that reverses the question: ' if I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him? ' "

What about us? How do we treat the people around us? — ARS

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LOVE WON'T LET PEOPLE LYING ON THE CURB, BUT IT WILL BEAR, CARE FOR, AND RESTORE IT

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