Parable of the Good Samaritan
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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.
Applications
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. The Jews hated the Samaritans; they were half-breeds, a mix of Jews and Gentiles. This makes the irony greater that the Jew, robbed and beaten, was aided by a Samaritan, much like the Christians today are persecuted by God-denying heathans.
He had been travelling from Jerusalem