Analysis: The Parable Of The Good Samaritan
The Parable of the Good Samaritan that is found in the Gospel of Luke, exhibits the aspects of the Kingdom of God. In this parable a samaritan sees someone that is injured and seeing this moves him to have pity and takes care of him. The samaritan takes the mans pain in as his own pain and wants to help him. By looking at this we can also see the principle of mercy that Jon Sobrino discusses in the writing. The principle of mercy is not just feeling bad for someone is it taking someone else’s pain and feeling the pain as if you were that person. There are three parts to this principle; see, one must see the suffering going on around you; internalize, you have to let yourself be moved by what you see; lastly is re-act, you have to do something