Little in the news today makes one smile. Nevertheless, I smiled broadly at the news of the recent opening of the Museum of the Good Samaritan in Israel. The museum is located on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho. The site is purported to be that of biblical Ma'ale Adumim and the inn of the Good Samaritan.
The smile, of course, is evoked by the attempt to identify and locate this new enterprise according to details in a parable of Jesus. While the story contains details which are identifiable
and events that might have taken place, the truth is that it is parable and not history.
The museum contains artifacts inspired by the well-known parable of Jesus. There is an open-air display of mosaics and other exhibits.
While I will be tempted to visit on my next trip to Israel, I am more apt to visit anew the parable found in Luke 10: 25-37. Even better, I will seek to do as the Good Samaritan did.
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