A mathematical approach to the parable of the Good Samaritan Luke connects the three stories as if they were one continuous story through the points of two different contacts. Then, what message does Luke want to convey through this? As you know, the parable of the Good Samaritan is unique to the Gospel of Luke. […]
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Luke connected the parable of the Good Samaritan with the story of raising the dead son of the widow of Nain. Luke goes one step further and connects the story of the Good Samaritan with the story of the coronation as king at Bethany. One is the image of “the road down to Jericho.” Jesus,
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The parable of the Good Samaritan is a parable introduced by Jesus with the image of the shepherd and the sheep of Ezekiel 34 in mind.The narrator, Jesus, draws an image of the fulfillment of the prophecy in Ezekiel 34:16 by using the word “καταδέω” in the parable of the Good Samaritan.Therefore, the Good Samaritan
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The parables Jesus used are mostly based on everyday life, which makes them easy to understand and relate to the audience and readers of the time. Since the parables Jesus used are based on situations that could actually happen or have happened, not on impossible scenarios, therefore, there’s no inherent difficulty in understanding the parables.
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The word “parable” in the Gospels has an Old Testament background. The word “parable” used by Jesus in the conversation is “mashal” (משל).15) In the Greek Septuagint (LXX) translation of the Old Testament, the word “marshal” is translated into the Greek word “parabolē,”16) the English word “parable” is a transliteration of the Greek word “parabolē.”17) Brad H.
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