Luke 10:29 - 37

When a lawyer desiring to justify himself asked Jesus the question, “Who is my neighbour”, Jesus ingeniously presented the parable of the Good Samaritan to answer him. He indicated to His audience that the traveller attacked by the robbers was a Jew, because only the Jews take the circuitous route via Jericho, in order to avoid passing through Samaria to go to the North. The Jews and the Samaritans were always at loggerheads.