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The word translated neighbor in Luke 10:27,29,36 can be found a total of 17 times in the New Testament. We find it in Matthew 5:43; Romans 13:10; Ephesians 4:25. The word means a friend; one person in a party of two; or to a Jewish person in Jesus day, a fellow Hebrew. But in the…
Jesus began one of His best known parables, the parable of the good Samaritan, this way: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and fled, leaving him half dead” (Luke 10:30). It is interesting that Jesus used the word for…
Jesus’ description of the contagious joy of the shepherd after he found his one lost sheep is very interesting. He said, “When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders, and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost…
As Jesus “stepped ashore, He saw a huge crowd and had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. Then He began to teach them many things.” So wrote Mark in his account of Jesus’ feeding of the crowd of 5,000 men, plus women and children (Mark 6:34; vv. 30-44 for the…
What can preschoolers learn from the parable of the good Samaritan? Quite a bit! The question really isn’t “Who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29) but “How can I be a neighbor?” (see v. 36). This parable teaches that being a neighbor to another involves doing what one can to meet others’ needs.
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