relation as reciprocal. A Jewish audience would regard it as particularly humiliating to receive such extravagant love from a Samaritan, of all people, so that Jesus’s concept of neighborliness goes far beyond a patronizing benevolence shown by the chosen people to those less fortunate. 10:37 The one who had mercy on him. Did the lawyer find the word “Samaritan” too uncomfortable to say directly? His words read literally, “the one who did the mercy with him,” an unusual expression that draws out