The Good Samaritan and the Hope for Kingdom Restoration (Luke 10:25-37)

This article considers the parable of the Good Samaritan within the framework of Luke’s concern with the restoration of a united kingdom of Israel. This long-anticipated reintegration of North and South, Samaritan and Jew, through the exercise of God’s compassion, parabolically demonstrated in the actions of a merciful Samaritan, and evidenced in the Samaritan responses to Jesus and the apostolic proclamation in Luke-Acts, is to be reflected in the brotherly compassion to which God’s one people are called.