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It is a common tendency to assume how someone will behave based on their job title or position. However, this assumption may only sometimes be valid. The priest and the Levite, in the parable, may have had a bad day or were too occupied with their work to notice the wounded man lying on the side of the road. They may have assumed that he was already dead or were scared of encountering the robbers, only to experience the same fate. We cannot say what was going through their minds, but their decision to ignore the severely wounded man is evident.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37)

As Jesus was teaching, a young man who was an expert in the Law stood up to ask a question. He was testing Jesus to see how Jesus would answer. 

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