He Did Not Have to Go Through Samaria Note: This post does not continue from my last; I’ll be resuming that series shortly. This one is the usual weekly Gospel translation and commentary. Samaritans observing Passover on Mount Gerizim in 2006. Photo by Edward Karpov, used under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license (source). The Gospel passage this Sunday was one of the Lord’s most beloved parables, that of the “Good Samaritan.” This stands out, because Samaritans appear only irregularly in... Read more