I ask everyone to please take heed to the lesson here! Please try and take it for what it is. Look past religion if you are not a believer, the message is significant alone! Let us not forget that we shape are world and we can be better than segregation by color or belief! Every walk of life has some bad apples in it's group, let us not judge and condemn all of that group for this!

God Bless us all and peace be to your house!


The parable of the good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

25 An, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
27 And he answering said, THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL THY MIND; and THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.
28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said on to him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?
37 And he said, He that showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.


The lesson taught here is this:

Ritual considerations may have have been used by the priest and the Levite as excuses for passing by; or they may have feared the thieves themselves. In either case Jesus' point is that they were heartless in their behavior. The Levites were officials of lower ranks than priests; they oversaw the temple worship. Unlike the priest, the Levite at least approached the victim and gazed at him. But neither extended aid.
Jews and Samaritans were bitter rivals. The Samaritans were despised for having at least partially Gentile ancestry (due to Assyria's conquest of Samaria in 721 B.C.) and for having a different worship center(Mount Gerizim). Thus Jesus' parable was highly provocative. Samaritan was to Jesus' hearers automatically a term of reproach. To portray a Samaritan as fulfilling the commandment, but Jews as circumventing it, would be a supreme insult to the listening lawyer and to the rest of the audience.
The lawyer cannot even bring himself to say "the Samaritan." Jesus shows that the racial considerations are utterly transcended by God's command to love him, and thus to love others as He does, without prejudice or partially.