a re-write of an earlier post http://no-agenda-but-jesus.blogspot.com/2010/12/parable-of-beaten-man.html. as i was rereading it today, i saw a totally different emphasis.
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Jesus was asked, how can i be saved?
He told a story...
a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, fell among robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and left him for dead.
a priest came down the road. to touch the man would make him ceremonially unclean and unable to do his priestly duties. so he passed him by on the other side. the law was unable to save.
a levite came and looked. to touch the man would make him ceremonially unclean. so he passed him by on the other side as well. the law was unable to save.
but an Outcast came along, rejected and despised, and so identified with the broken man, that He had mercy on him and took him unto Himself, and loved him as His own. He bound up his wounds, anointing them with oil and wine, and carrying him on His own animal, took him to an inn to tend to him.
the next day when He left, He gave the innkeeper two denarii, and said whatever else the man's wounds require, I will give all. for this left-for-dead man's life I take as Mine own.
who was a Neighbor to the man who fell among robbers?
Jesus said, "Go and do likewise".
(ref. Luke 10:30-37.)
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please note: i'm not stating this, or the earlier version, as in anyway an authoritative -- or even necessarily accurate -- interpretation of the scripture. i'm just attempting to understand. :)
~lynnie
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