Luke 10:36-37
[Jesus asked,] “Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the robbers’ victim?” He answered, “The one who treated him with mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

Today’s Gospel reading is about the “Good Samaritan.” At that time Jews did not associate with Samaritans. So when Jesus was making a point to a Jewish scholar about the greatest commandment being to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself, He chose a Samaritan as His example of someone who loved his neighbor. Others passed by the robbery victim while the Samaritan stopped to help. This would have infuriated Jesus’ audience. How could the despised Samaritan be the good guy? No one is all good or all bad…but a mixture. We are all capable of making the loving response to the one we regard as the “other.” In the Body of Christ…there is no “other.” We are all God’s beloved children.

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