Portfolio 2: Good Samaritan Interpritation

Jesus' criticism and solution to the lawyer's question of how to gain eternal life was to tell the lawyer to be a good neighbor. After hearing that the lawyer asks the question of who is his neighbor, and Jesus tells him the parable of the Good Samaritan and then flips the question and asks the lawyer what does it mean to be a good neighbor, meaning what does it mean to be human? This was the solution to the lawyer's question; to have life one must be a good neighbor, that meaning to be a real human being. To be a real human being means to have the ability to see those who are suffering, not necessarily helping them, but just being able to see them, just as the Samaritan saw the beaten man on the road.