Tertullian, in his De Pudentia ( On Modesty ) 7: 1-4 mentions the depiction of a shepherd on Christian cups, calling to mind the parable of the Good Shepherd and thus used as a symbol for Jesus.

The New Testament contains the parable of the Good Samaritan, where a man who was beaten is cared for by a Samaritan.

It is supposed to have been the place referred to in the parable of the Good Samaritan ().

For they … by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple ", and which recounts the parable of the Good Shepherd, and provides the procedure to be followed in dealing with those who err:

The name comes from the Biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, though the organisation is not linked to any church.

Good Samaritan laws take their name from a parable found in the Bible, attributed to Jesus, commonly referred to as the Parable of the Good Samaritan which is contained in Luke 10: 25-37.

The colloquial phrase " good Samaritan ," meaning someone who helps a stranger, derives from this parable, and many hospitals and charitable organizations are named after the Good Samaritan.

In some Orthodox icons of the parable, the identification of the Good Samaritan as Christ is made explicit with a halo bearing a cross.

The parable of the Good Samaritan is the theme for the Austrian Christian Charity commemorative coin, minted 12 March 2003.

Australian poet Henry Lawson wrote a poem on the parable (" The Good Samaritan "), of which the third stanza reads:

Samaritan, which sets the parable in modern times, stars Antonio Albadran in the role of the Good Samaritan.

The parable of the Good Samaritan is also seen as significant, providing a " life-giving message to the marginalized Dalits and a challenging message to the non-Dalits.

The name of the organization is based on the New Testament Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which Jesus uses a parable to teach people the second great commandment-how to " love thy neighbour as thyself ".

It also is the site of the Good Samaritan parable in the Book of Luke.

Other archeological sites on the outskirts of Ma ' ale Adumim include the Khan el-Hatruri, also known as the Inn of the Good Samaritan ( cited in a parable by Jesus, in Luke 10: 30-37 ), and the remains of the Monastery of St. Euthymius built in the 5th century and destroyed by the Mamluk sultan Baybars.

Jesus teaches that we must each love our neighbors as ourselves and in the parable of the Good Samaritan we see that our compassion should extend to all people.

In this novel, Ritter parallels the parable of the Good Samaritan to show how, step by daunting step, Tyler ’ s crippling anger dissolves into compassion for the “ battered man ” who was once his enemy .”

The name comes from the Bible parable of the Good Samaritan, which tells of a traveler from the region of Samaria who helped a person along the road who had been robbed and beaten.

Some Christians, such as Augustine, have interpreted the parable allegorically, with the Samaritan representing Jesus Christ, who saves the sinful soul.

One of its beautiful stained-glass windows portrays the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden at the top of the window, and, in parallel, the parable of the good Samaritan at the bottom.

The unexpected appearance of the Samaritan led Joseph Halévy to suggest that the parable originally involved " a priest, a Levite, and an Israelite ," in line with contemporary Jewish stories, and that Luke changed the parable to be more familiar to a gentile audience.

The paradox of a disliked outsider such as a Samaritan helping a Jew is typical of Jesus ' provocative parables, and is a deliberate feature of this parable.

The term " good Samaritan " is used as a common metaphor: " The word now applies to any charitable person, especially one who, like the man in the parable, rescues or helps out a needy stranger.

The guest list is in itself a little parable of the state of American civic life at this time.

A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.

Her story The Land of Far-Beyond is a Christian parable along the lines of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with modern children as the central characters.

The priest tells K. that the parable is an ancient text of the court, and many generations of court officials have given interpretations.

Contained within Economic Sophisms is the famous satirical parable known as the " Candlemakers ' petition " which presents itself as a demand from the candlemakers ' guild to the French government, asking the government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.

Similarly, a city has three parts – Socrates uses the parable of the chariot to illustrate his point: a chariot works as a whole because the two horses ’ power is directed by the charioteer.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

As one commentator notes, " Luke is the only one to record the parable of the two debtors, and he chooses to preserve it in this setting ...

If one considers the other gospel accounts as a variation of the same event, it is likely that the parable is not authentically set.

The Parable of the Pearl ( also called the Pearl of Great Price ) is a parable of Jesus of Nazareth.

This parable is generally interpreted as illustrating the great value of the Kingdom of Heaven ( pearls at that time had a greater value than they do today ), and thus has a similar theme to the Parable of the Hidden Treasure.

This interpretation of the parable is the inspiration for a number of hymns, including the Swedish hymn Den Kos ­ tli ­ ga Pärlan ( O That Pearl of Great Price!

A less common interpretation of the parable is that the merchant represents Christ, and the pearl represents the Church.

In chapter 21, the parable of the vineyard is followed by the great " stone " text, an early christological midrash of: " The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone ".

It is a philosophical parable with a sparse plot featuring bare and abstract descriptions of characters ; the city of Omelas is the primary focus of the narrative.

The theme of the hymns and readings on this Sunday is dedicated to the lessons to be learned from the parable: that righteous actions alone do not lead to salvation, that pride renders good deeds fruitless, that God can only be approached through a spirit of humility and repentance, and that God justifies the humble rather than the self-righteous.

The Gospel Reading on Sunday lays out one of the most important themes of the Lenten season: the process of falling into of sin, realization of one's sinfulness, the road to repentance, and finally reconciliation, each of which is illustrated in the course of the parable.

This is the moral of Lessing's Nathan the Wise ( Nathan der Weise ), the hero of which is undoubtedly Mendelssohn, and in which the parable of the three rings is the epitome of the pragmatic position.

When Mannie asks him why he bought it, the Professor relates the following parable, implying that self-government is an illusion caused by failure to understand reality: