The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Luke 10.25-37

The best-known stories are sometimes the hardest to understand. ‘The good Samaritan’ has passed into folklore, and has succeeded, confusingly, in changing the meaning of the word ‘Samaritan’ itself in modern English. There is now a well-known organization called ‘The Samaritans’, whose task is to give help to people in the direst need. But that certainly wasn’t what people would have meant by the word in Jesus’ day...

Taken from Luke for Everyone – by Tom Wright