1. BW- Reputation vs. Character
What matters more: a person’s reputation, or a person’s character? Why?

2. Lk. 10:26-29 My Neighbor? Where does v. 27 come from?
What is the key question this passage tries to address?

3. Who is YOUR Neighbor?
How would you answer the lawyer’s question? What criteria do you use?
“Neighbor” in this world meant “my fellow Jew”

4. Lk. 10:30-32 Passers By Who passes the wounded man by?
Why do you think they don’t stop to help him?

5. Passers By Wounded man passed by _______ and _______ Both are worried
about ritual purity
Touching a
corpse or blood
makes you
“unclean”

6. Parable of the good Samaritan
Priest: a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and esp. to make sacrificial offerings. Had to remain clean.
Levite: A person from the Tribe of Levi. These people were temple helpers who had to remain clean.

7. Samaritans
Lk. 10:33-35
How does the Samaritan respond to the wounded man?
Who were the Samaritans?

8. Samaritans
Samaritan: they were outcast people because they were of mixed ethnic and religious backgrounds. They were not fully Jew and so many Jews did not like them.

9. Hi, Neighbor!
Jesus identifies the one who shows mercy / helps others as a neighbor
Expands the concept to include outsiders / enemies
Redefines role based on service not receiving help

10. Allegory
Allegory- a device in which characters or events in a story, poem, or picture represent or symbolize ideas and concepts

11. St. Augustine’s Interpretations:
Good Samaritan Story:
Interpretations:
Jerusalem
A- The Church
Jericho
B- Satan
Robbers
C- The Torah
Priest
D- Jesus
Levite
E- Jesus’ Second Coming
Samaritan
F- Heaven
Inn
G- Earth
Samaritan’s Return
H- The Prophets