Analysis of the Good Samaritan: A Reflection on Mercy and Compassion

This essay provides a reflection on the Parable of the Good Samaritan, focusing on the paradigm of guilt and innocence. The student analyzes the story's context within Catholic education, emphasizing themes of mercy, compassion, and selfless behavior. The essay examines the characters involved, including the priest, Levite, and Samaritan, and highlights the Samaritan's actions as a model of helping those in need, challenging readers to consider their own ethical responsibilities. The essay references various sources to support its analysis, exploring the parable's significance in challenging religious leaders and promoting the grace of God, as well as its relevance in the context of modern society. The essay also touches upon the question of who is our neighbor and the importance of showing compassion and helping those in need, regardless of their background.

Assessment

The following discussion is based on the reflection on one of the chapter of Jesus in
Bible known as the parable of the Good Samaritan. Out of three paradigms, the most certain
paradigm selected in this discussion is Guilt and innocence (Ruiz-Martinez and et. al., 2019).
In science and philosophy, the word paradigm is a symbol or a distinct set through
patterns, including theories, postulates, and research methods and so on. Guilt and innocence
is one of the paradigms, is quiet explainable and logically reasoning is such in their own
minds. Therefore, innocent and guilt oriented reflective essay is represented below.
Catholic education and the most sort of chapter in Bible which has been written by
Jesus is nothing but “Mercy that loves” or can be stated as Parable of the Good Samaritan.
The month January has been reflected out to be the most designated and the Parable of the
Good Samaritan is one of the passage which is scripted is recognizably suggested for the
pondering (Neuhaus, 2019).
The major idea given by the Good Samaritan is own life. Someone dignity, selfless
behaviour, helpful behaviour and charm nature is a symbol of a Good Samaritan written in
the Bible is something which is danger, rid of personal risk and distress behaviour. There are
major number of hospitals and churches named after this Gospel hero, as well as major
philanthropic agencies and civic organisations which provide a huge support in terms of
family aid societies, need, shelters and many more. It can be majorly suggested that the
parable of the Good Samaritan is found only in Luke’s Gospel. It is Jesus’ reply to the
question put to him by a lawyer: “Who is my neighbour?” The parable runs as follows.
A man was coming to Jericho from Jerusalem and he fell the robbers, who beat him
and stripped him and leaving him half dead. And suddenly the priest was going down to that
particular road and he saw that man on the other side of the road. Likewise, a Samaritan came
from the place, suddenly saw him, had a great compassion, But a Samaritan, as he journeyed,
came to where he was; went him and bound his wounds pouring on oil and wine; then he set
him on his own beast and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And the next day he
took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him; and whatever
more you spend, I will repay you when I come back'.
One of the great story reflected that Pompey has to wipe out the “strongholds of
brigands” near Jericho. He has been beaten, left deadly and robbed. He lied and without the
signs of social status and nationality, it indicates the clothes of people (Lucas and Bird,
2019).

The story also tells about a priest and a Levite which came along and reflectively saw
the naked man who crossed and passed on the other side. Jerusalem, one of the priesthood,
noted about the upper urban classicism and the Jewish nobility. The priest is one of the
representatives in the Jewish piety. He is from the lower clergy such as gatekeepers,
musicians, teachers, janitors and many others. The Levite and Priest are the ultimate insiders.
Also, those who are quiet efficiently listening about the Jesus story will surely experience the
love and mercy. The two religious leaders, instead of showing brilliant love, efficiently
walked past a man dying on the side of the road. The story, as David Garland points out in his
monumental Commentary on Luke, “presents the failure of religious leaders to be humane
and follow the dictates of Scripture (Ruiz-Martinez and et. al., 2019).
If it can be suggested as the priest and the Levite is the neighbour then it was a duty to
save him. That is what Leviticus told them: “You shall not stand by the blood of your
neighbour”. But then, there were those laws forbidding them to touch a corpse. If the half-
dead man died in their hands, they would be defiled for seven days. Mercy can be a risky
business, and they knew it (Weaver, 2020).
The Samaritan story is the next one to be appearing. One might have expected a
Jewish layperson. After all, the traditional triad at the time of Christ was “priests, Levites,
and all the people of Israel.” These were the three categories of the social hierarchy that
dominated Judaism after the Babylonian Exile. Maybe one of claimed has been suggested
that the people” would come along and show the mercy by the priest and Levite. But the story
shocks its hearers by bringing on scene, instead, a Samaritan. Before Christ, 2 hundreds
years, the writer of the book called the Samaritans; they were excluded from the temple cult
in Jerusalem (Stenschke, 2020).
The Samaritan “then set the man on his own beast and brought him to an inn, and took
care of him. Again in the next day, And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them
to the innkeeper, saying, “Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you
when I come back.” The Samaritan not only saved the victim’s life, he saved his dignity
(Leeson, 2019).
The account of Samaritan is seems out to be the longest part of the parable. For the
parable, it is not about a significant desire but it is seems out to be the longest part of the
Samaritan. Go and do likewise is a metaphor for the god’s kingdom and it is amazingly
brought by the Jesus, in which God has been constantly surprising. The jolting reminder of

the story stated that wisdom and the grace of God is much bigger than the pretty
understanding of the human. The god’s grace is not only for the persons and places.
It is made for every single thing which has its great demand and purpose of living. A
challenging story to the Church is not about a reflection of the institution but also a prideful
distinction between clergy and laity. Pope Francis would states that the story is quiet
challenging and an institution has been built on the prideful distinction between laity and
clergy (Yeary, 2020).
Travelling amazingly to Jericho from Jerusalem is appropriately wonderful. The
Samaritan is extremely vulnerable because they called as Samaritan. However, the
vulnerability like this, gave a wonderful rise on the compassion. He saw neither Jew nor
Samaritan lying wounded on the road. He saw a naked fellow human being. After many
years, the author of American James Carroll wrote a moving little book titled Contemplation
( Cannon, B.Q., 2018).
But without lawyer things are not just possible to be properly exempted, the special
question to be asked to the Jesus “who is my neighbour?” that evoked this parable in the first
place. He innocently states and asked to the Jesus to test him on the basis of the eternal life.
Jesus simply asked back the questions to him the law stated that the god will always have a
heart for all the humans and he gives strength and peace in mind (ORR-EWING, 2020).
Then the Luke states to him and justify accordingly that there is no neighbour of
mine. In returns Jesus states and in a very straight forward way he suggested that “legalism,
the minimalism, the quest for a loop-hole”. So the Jesus replied that by answering such
questions I cannot be able to re-functioning the temptation to get paraphrase. The Jesus also
stated that if you genuinely want to know that who is your neighbour is then let me tell you
that go and ask the poor devil who was completely left for dead in a ditch on the road to
Jericho.

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