Biblical Meaning For The Word Samaritan

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1. From the article and from your work in our class so far, what do you think makes this word important and what do you think it's basic meaning is?

Based off the text and how I interpreted the word Samaritan, I thought that it was just talking about Jesus getting water from a woman that just happened to live in Samaria. I have no idea about what was the point other than her being kind to him. When I have been in church I was always told just that the basic "moral" of the story was be kind to your neighbors, and just by reading the book of John I decided there was no need to question it. John is mostly about showing why people should believe in Jesus and that it is important to let other people know, his stories so they can also believe in the "messiah"

2. How many times does the word appear in the New Testament in the NRSV?

The word Samaritan appears five times out of the six, in the New Testament, it appears in the gospels of Luke and John according to The NRSV Concordance Unabridged, By Kohlenberger.

a. How many times, if and does the word appear in the Old Testament in the NRSV?

The word Samaritan does not appear at all in the Old Testament, according to The NRSV Concordance Unabridged, by Kohlenberger.

b. What might be significant about this?

I feel that this is really significant because the word Samaritan shows up in the New Testament rather than the old, this is important because more people felt a need to talk about Samaritan in the New Testament. Apparently the authors of John and Luke found it more important than any of the other writers. It feel like this is a really big deal do to the fact that this word is extremely unique to Luke do to the fact that Luke is a synoptic gospel, this must have come from source L that makes it unique to Luke because it is not found in any of the other Gospels. A different form of the word maybe but this form is specific to Luke. John on the other hand has nothing to do with what the synoptic gospels say because it is not a part of them. So to find the significance in John you have to look at why the author of John decided to include them, in other words examine the author's agenda for writing the book.

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