But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
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Gill's Exposition
And went to him, and bound up his wounds,.... Which sin had made; it being part of the work of Christ, to bind up the broken-hearted, to heal wounded sinners, and restore comforts to mourners; and…
Barnes' Notes
A certain Samaritan - The Samaritans were the most inveterate foes of the Jews. They had no dealings with each other. See the notes at Mat 10:5. It was this fact which rendered the conduct of this…
Adam Clarke
Samaritan is mentioned merely to show that he was a person from whom a Jew had no right to expect any help or relief, because of the enmity which subsisted between the two nations.
We have here Christ's discourse with a lawyer about some points of conscience, which we are all concerned to be rightly informed in and are so here from Christ though the questions were proposed with…
Cambridge Bible
a certain Samaritan A Samaritan is thus selected for high eulogy though the Samaritans had so ignominiously rejected Jesus (Luk 9:53)-
as he journeyed He was not -coming down* as the Priest and Levite…
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