Father Snort

Brad Sullivan St. Mark’s, Bay City July 10, 2016 - Proper 10 Luke 10:25-37 Prejudice & Segregation Have No Place In God’ Kingdom Jesus blew some minds and likely ruffled some feathers with his response to the lawyer’s question, “Who is my neighbor?” As understood in Leviticus 19, an Israelite’s neighbor was one of his own kin, a fellow Israelite. Neighbor was therefore narrowly interpreted so that loving others outside of Israel was not required. Certainly loving a Samaritan was not required. In fact, Samaritans were so hated and vilified by Israel, that being loving toward one of them may have even been seen as the wrong thing to do, or at least something that brought scandal and gossip. “I heard Joe was being friendly with a Samaritan the other day.” “Ewe! Do you think he ate with one of them? They’re not friends, are they?” “I don’t know, but I don