who was robbed of his belongings, and was left to rot in the

streets. First, a priest comes by and sees the man on the street.

The priest ignored the man because he was a germaphobe and

also thought he was dead. The Levite had the same assumption

of the man and continued to go along with way. Then a Samaritan

saw this man on the side of the road, and patched his wounds, 

and took him to the inn, paying for the wounded man's stay at the 

inn, and then promised to return to pay any extra expenses. In a real

life scenario, we would be hesitant to help people who are in need. As

humans we always play the bystander and waiting for someone else to

take action and play hero. In this case the Samaritan played the hero

role and ignored the fact that he man might be his own enemy.

younger son of a rich man. The Son receives a

gift of money from his father and leaves. Then,

the son squanders his fortune. Next, a famine comes

and the son is helpless. He returns to his father, apologizes,

and his father rejoices and forgives. The father throws a huge

party for the return of his younger son. This angers the

older son because he believes that his father prefers the

younger son. Even though the older son always obeyed his

father and never ran away, the father never threw a big

party for his older son who thought he deserved it more than

the younger one.

and was one of the spies sent into Canaan by Moses to see if the Israelites

could conquer Canaan. He along with Joshua agreed that the Israelites could

conquer Canaan if they believed in the Lord.