THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE - Chapter 10 - Verse 34
Verse 34. Pouring in oil and wine. These were often used in medicine
to heal wounds. Probably they were mingled together, and had a highly
sanative quality. How strikingly is his conduct contrasted with the
priest and Levite! and how particularly as well as beautifully by
this does our Saviour show what we ought to do to those who are in
circumstances of need! He does not merely say in general that he
showed him kindness, but he told how it was done. He stopped—came
where he was —pitied him—bound up his wounds— set him on his own
beast—conducted him to a tavern—passed the night with him, and then
secured the kind attendances of the landlord, promising him to pay
him for his trouble—and all this without desiring or expecting any
reward. If this had been by a Jew, it would have been signal kindness;
if it had been by a Gentile, it would also have been great kindness;
but it was by a Samaritan —a man of a nation most hateful to the
Jews, and therefore it most strikingly shows what we are to do to
friends and foes when they are in distress.
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