#power doesnt mean theyre good people: look at the priest and rabbi who just walked by!

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for my history exam instead of taking the test should i just write about everything he got wrong about the bible in the last three weeks of class

#*ignores the question* in the parable of the good samaritan a key point is that the two people who passed the injured man on the road were #people in positions of power in jewish society at the time: a levite priest and a rabbi iirc. both these supposedly respectable men turned #their heads to ignore the suffering of thew jewish man on the road. when a samaritan-a member of a culture group that often conflicted with #the jewish people-walked by he saw the jewish person suffering and helped him up brought him to an inn and paid for his lodging and medical #treatment. he was not rewarded in any tangible way-unlike when YOU said in lecture that he got rich because of it. therefore the lesson is #NOT ‘do good things and you will be rewarded’ but rather-get this-an answer to a question posed to jesus. this question was ‘who is my #neighbor?’ pertaining to jesus’ great commandment love your neighbor as yourself. jesus told the parable of the good samaritan in order to #illustrate that when he says neighbor he is not speaking in a sense of physical proximity but instead in a wider less physical way to mean #just other people-regardless of any cultural beef there might be. it also displayed that just because people are in positions of societal #power doesnt mean theyre good people: look at the priest and rabbi who just walked by!