Parable of the Good Samaritan

In Jesus' Parable of the Good Samaritan, a traveler is assaulted by thieves and left for dead. A Samaritan, or native of Samaria, helps him and brings him to an inn to be cared for.

The Good Samaritan may represent the Christian. Even when religious leaders, like the priest or Levite who passed by the hurt man, while not acknowledge a soul in despair, the Christian will. He rescues the heathan man from death on the side of the road. He was