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In response to a lawyer’s attempt to catch Him out, Jesus delivers the most well known parable in history – the story of the Good Samaritan. The lawyer wasn’t seeking an answer that he didn’t already know, when he asked Jesus “what shall I do to inherit eternal life.” The lawyer knew what the scriptures taught but he didn’t know how to truly love God and his neighbour as himself. Jesus’ parable describing the Samaritan’s response to a robbed man’s needs confronted the lawyer with the impossibility of pleasing God through his own efforts. Leaving faith in God as the only answer to his original question.

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