Intermediate Lesson 3 -
The Good Samaritan

The Good Samaritan reading exercise is the second part of Intermediate Lesson 3, the Parable of the Good Samaritan. You can also do it as an individual reading exercise.

First, here are the answers to the Listening questions for this lesson.

1.  What do people have to do to obtain eternal life, according to Jesus?
People must love God with all their heart and soul and love their neighbors as themselves.

2.  What happened to the man who was traveling to Jericho?
He was attacked and robbed. He was beaten up and left for dead on the road.

3.  What did a priest do when he saw the injured man?
He ignored him and walked on the other side of the road.

4.  What did a temple worker do when he saw the injured man?
He also ignored him and walked on the other side of the road.

5.  Where did the man from Samaria take the injured man?
To an inn (hotel).

Reading Text

Here is the text for this parable. Read it several times. Try not to run to a dictionary and look up all the words you don’t know. Instead, just try and understand what the word means by understanding the context of the sentence.

When you have finished reading, download the PDF. This way, you can read the passage and listen at the same time. Read and listen together a few more times.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37 CEV

An expert in the Law of Moses stood up and asked Jesus a question to see what he would say. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to have eternal life?”

Jesus answered, “What is written in the Scriptures? How do you understand them?”

The man replied, “The Scriptures say, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind.’ They also say, ‘Love your neighbors as much as you love yourself.’”

Jesus said, “You have given the right answer. If you do this, you will have eternal life.”

But the man wanted to show that he knew what he was talking about. So he asked Jesus, “Who are my neighbors?”

Jesus replied:

As a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, robbers attacked him and grabbed everything he had. They beat him up and ran off, leaving him half dead.

A priest happened to be going down the same road. But when he saw the man, he walked by on the other side. Later a temple helper came to the same place. But when he saw the man who had been beaten up, he also went by on the other side.

A man from Samaria then came traveling along that road. When he saw the man, he felt sorry for him and went over to him. He treated his wounds with olive oil and wine and bandaged them. Then he put him on his own donkey and took him to an inn, where he took care of him. The next morning he gave the innkeeper two silver coins and said, “Please take care of the man. If you spend more than this on him, I will pay you when I return.”

Then Jesus asked, “Which one of these three people was a real neighbor to the man who was beaten up by robbers?”

The expert in the Law of Moses answered, “The one who showed pity.”

Jesus said, “Go and do the same!”