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Luke 10 is the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records the sending of seventy disciples by Jesus, the famous parable about the Good Samaritan, and his visit to the house of Mary and Martha. [1]
Parable of the Good Samaritan by Balthasar van Cortbemde (1647) shows the Good Samaritan tending the injured man while the Levite and priest are also shown in the distance. John Calvin was not impressed by Origen's allegorical reading: The allegory which is here contrived by the advocates of free will is too absurd to deserve refutation ...
Parables are one of the many literary forms in the Bible, but are especially seen in the gospels of the New Testament. Parables are generally considered to be short stories such as the Good Samaritan , and are differentiated from metaphorical statements such as, "You are the salt of the earth."
Footnotes indicate varying readings between the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint, the Aramaic Syriac Peshitta, the Latin Vulgate, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Samaritan Pentateuch. The books of the New Testament are in a non-traditional order from the standard Christian canon.
The Gospel of Luke [a] is the third of the New Testament's four canonical Gospels. It tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. [4] Together with the Acts of the Apostles, it makes up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts, [5] accounting for 27.5% of the New Testament. [6]
The parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37) [5] complemented by a series of Old and New Testament typologies served as a popular subject for cathedral glazing programs in the thirteenth century. [6] Three French cathedral windows fabricated between 1200 and 1215 function in this way: Sens (c.1200), Chartres (1205/1215), [7] and Bourges (c ...
A gospel harmony is an attempt to compile the canonical gospels of the Christian New Testament into a single account. [1] This may take the form either of a single, merged narrative, or a tabular format with one column for each gospel, technically known as a synopsis, although the word harmony is often used for both. [1]
The Samaritan Targum, composed in the Samaritan variety of Western Aramaic, is the earliest translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch. Its creation was motivated by the same need to translate the Pentateuch into the Aramaic language spoken by the community which led to the creation of Jewish Targums such as Targum Onkelos .