Who is my neighbour?
Even in churches, I am not sure that people today
really grasp the significance of the parable of The Good
Samaritan.
Jesus told the story against a backcloth of racial
hatred. The Samaritans were not so much gentiles as 'renegade Jews'. They were
hated and despised. So
when Jesus told a story where the Samaritan was the hero and the Jewish
religious people were cold and unfeeling - the story would have caused a tidal
wave in a rock-pool. It was meant
to!
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