The Good Samaritian

[Drich]

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Ah! I see the problem now. The G/S was the neighbor who was loving the beaten jew as himself.

36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”[u]

The one who had mercy was the sameritian. So In this story the 'G/S' was the neighbor while the Fellow Jews were not.


Jesus is saying if you do someone a good turn you are that neighbor, even though you may not have any other connection to this person.

The story relays that one must be more than just linked to someone else either by kinsmenship or simple proxcimity (what dummy would ever think that ) One must actually do something that help someone else even if there are no other connections. That is what makes a neighbor a neighbor.

Like helping a friend at midnight with a loaf of bread, that makes a friend a good neighbor.

simple miss communication.

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