The Good Samaritan was not a doctor and wasn’t responsible for healing the man in the ditch, and neither was he responsible for ending the world’s violence or filling in the world’s ditches. The Samaritan only had to dignify the man in the ditch as a human being made in the image of God and love him well—to Jesus, this was the story of a man who’d born witness to the eternal life in him by loving his neighbor.
