Portfolio 2: Good Samaritan Interpretation

In the parable The Good Samaritan, Jesus criticizes the lack of humanity in people, mainly the upper class in his society. He criticizes the priest's and the levite's selfishness and abscence of concern for the robbed, naked man. Because the man was naked, there was no way of knowing which class he belonged to. He was just a human. The levite and the priest might have helped the man had he been from the upper class, but they had no way of knowing; their reluctance to help another human being is revealed and scorned by Jesus. His solution is simple; treat others as human beings.