The Parables #37

The Good Samaritan – Part 7

Luke 10:25-37.

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There is one little phrase that we must yet examine. “And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee,” verse 35. The Samaritan had to continue on his journey but he made provision for the injured Jew. He paid for his care.

I. HOW OFTEN THE LORD JESUS HAD TO JOURNEY ON
“And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth,” Mark 1:38. The Saviour was searching for His elect. “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost,” Luke 19:10.

II. HE PROMISED TO RETURN
Though departed, he did not forget the injured Jew.
So it is with the Lord Jesus. “Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven,” Acts 1:11.
“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also,” John 14:3.
He did not say how long he would be away. Neither has our Saviour BUT, He has given us some indications of the time involved in some parables He told.
“But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,” Luke 12:45.
Note also Matthew 25:14-30. “Far”, verse 14; “Long time”, verse 19.
Another parable teaches the same. “Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time,” Luke 20:9.
Those “hints” I am sure would have been repeated many times.

III. HE PROMISED TO RETURN TO THE SAME PLACE
“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south,” Zechariah 14:1-4.