With the parable of the good Samaritan, Jesus challenged listeners to recognize that the term “neighbor” must include more than our own kind.
Jews and Samaritans were bitter enemies, but it is the Samaritan who is the true neighbor to the injured Jew.
He gave the church the task of making disciples “of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit.”
