Read Luke 10:25-37

THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN
The expert in religious law correctly understood that the law demanded total devotion to God and love for one’s neighbor.
But there was a deep hatred between Jews and Samaritans. The Jews saw themselves as pure descendants of Abraham, while Samaritans were a mixed race produced when Jews from the Northern Kingdom intermarried with gentile peoples after Israel’s exile. To this legal expert, the person least likely to act correctly would be the Samaritan. In fact, he could not bear to say Samaritan in his answer to Jesus’ question. This expert’s attitude betrayed his lack of the very thing that he had earlier said the law commanded – love.
The legal expert viewed the wounded man as a topic for discussion; the bandits, as an object to exploit; the priest, as a problem to avoid; and the Levite, or Temple assistant, as an object of curiosity. Only the Samaritan treated him as a person to love.
From the illustration you learn three principles about loving your neighbor: 1) Lack of love is often easy to justify, even though it is never right; 2) our neighbor is anyone of any race, creed, or social background who is in need; and 3) love means acting to meet the person’s need. Wherever you live, there are needy people close by. There is no good reason for refusing to help.