Love your neighbour” is an ancient commandment. It has been ever central to the pursuit of salvation. However, Jesus gives this a new interpretation in the parable of The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37). To the question of the scribe “Who is my neighbour?” Jesus offers the parable to explain that responsibility or neighbourhood is not determined by proximity of any type, least of all by race or caste. To be the neighbour required an attitude of the total sharing of oneself with the other. To love is to be available to give of oneself to another in need. Along the path of our life there will always be people placed there for us live out our call to love. “That they may see your good works, and glorify your Father” (Matthew 5:16) In the parable, the Samaritan was in no respect close or connected to the Jew who was plundered and left wounded by the wayside. He was not of the same clan and apparently shared nothing in common with the wounded man. Rather he should have counted the J...
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