Parable of the Compassionate Samaritan
Luke 10:25-37
- A Certain Lawyer (vs. 25-29)
a. What prompted this certain lawyer to stand up and pose his question?
b. How does Jesus answer this lawyers question?
c. Was it a good question that needs an answer?
d. What is telling about the lawyer “wanting to justify himself?”
- One Who Fell Among Thieves (vs. 30)
a. What do we know or can we presume of the man in Jesus' parable?
b. What happens to the man in the story?
c. In what condition is the man left?
- Help Is on the Way (vs. 31-37)
a. Who does Jesus have come along first and what is his response to the man?
b. Who comes along next and what is his response?
c. Who is the third to come along and what does he do?
d. What prompts the Samaritan to act?
e. How much time and resources does he commit to helping the man?
f. With what question does Jesus then “test” the lawyer?
g. Does the lawyer pass?
- Application: When we see people in urgent need what determines if we are “neighbors” to the one in need?
Is it that we just observe the need or that moved with compassion we step into the need with action?
