Editing Parable of the Good Samaritan (section)

==Art and popular culture==
The parable of the Good Samaritan was one of the most popular in medieval art.{{sfn|Mâle|1972|p=195}} The allegorical interpretation was often illustrated, with Christ as the Good Samaritan. Accompanying angels were sometimes also shown.{{sfn|Ross|1996|p=105}} In some [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] [[icon]]s of the parable, the identification of the Good Samaritan as Christ is made explicit with a [[Halo (religious iconography)|halo]] bearing a cross.{{sfn|Ballard|Holmes|2006|p=55}}

The numerous later artistic depictions of the parable include those of [[Rembrandt]], [[Jan Wijnants]], [[Vincent van Gogh]], [[Le Bon Samaritain|Aimé Morot]], [[Domenico Fetti]], [[Johann Carl Loth]], [[George Frederic Watts]], and [[Giacomo Conti (artist)|Giacomo Conti]]. Vincent van Gogh's painting captures the reverse hierarchy that is underscored in Luke's parable. Although the priest and Levite are near the top of the status hierarchy in Israel and the Samaritans near the bottom, van Gogh reverses this hierarchy in the painting.

In his essay ''Lost in Non-Translation'', biochemist and author [[Isaac Asimov]] argues that to the Jews of the time there were no good Samaritans; in his view, this was half the point of the parable. As Asimov put it, we need to think of the story occurring in Alabama in 1950, with a mayor and a preacher ignoring a man who has been beaten and robbed, with the role of the Samaritan being played by a poor black sharecropper.

The story's theme is portrayed throughout ''Marvel's Daredevil''.{{sfn|Damore|2015}}

The parable of the Good Samaritan is the theme for the Austrian [[Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Austria)#2003 coinage|Christian Charity commemorative coin]], minted 12 March 2003. This coin shows the Good Samaritan with the wounded man, on his horse, as he takes him to an inn for medical attention. An older coin with this theme is the American "Good Samaritan Shilling" of 1652.{{sfn|Frey|2009|p=95}}

Australian poet [[Henry Lawson]] wrote a poem on the parable ("The Good Samaritan"), of which the third [[stanza]] reads:
{{Poemquote|text=
He's been a fool, perhaps, and would
Have prospered had he tried,
But he was one who never could
Pass by the other side.
An honest man whom men called soft,
While laughing in their sleeves—
No doubt in business ways he oft
Had fallen amongst thieves.
|title=The Good Samaritan
|source={{harvnb|Lawson|1906|p=132}}}}

[[John Gardiner Calkins Brainard]] also wrote a poem on the theme.{{sfn|Brainard|1825|p=79}}

Dramatic film adaptations of the Parable of the Good Samaritan include the [[short film]] ''Samaritan'' (2006), set in a modern context, per the literary device of the ''Modern Parables'' DVD Bible study series.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.holidayatthesea.com/?tag=modern-parables |title=The Kingdom of Heaven is Like... An Interview With Thomas Purifoy |website=holidayatthesea.com |access-date=2009-01-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712214241/http://www.holidayatthesea.com/?tag=modern-parables |archive-date=2011-07-12}}</ref>

The English composer, [[Benjamin Britten]], was commissioned to write a piece to mark the centenary of the [[Red Cross]]. His resulting work for solo voices, choir, and orchestra, [[Cantata Misericordium]], sets a Latin text by Patrick Wilkinson that tells the parable of the Good Samaritan. It was first performed in Geneva in 1963.

In a real-life psychology experiment sometime before 1973, a number of seminary students{{snd}}in a rush to teach on this parable{{snd}}failed to stop to help a shabbily dressed person on the side of the road.{{sfn|Darley|Batson|1973|pp=100–108}}

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File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 033.jpg|''The Good Samaritan'' by [[Rembrandt]] (1630) shows the Good Samaritan making arrangements with the innkeeper. A later (1633) print by Rembrandt has a reversed and somewhat expanded version of the scene.{{sfn|Scott|Fleischer|1997|p=68}}
File:Vincent Willem van Gogh 022.jpg|''The good Samaritan, after Delacroix'' by [[Van Gogh]], 1890
File:2003 Austria 50 Euro Christian Charity back.jpg|[[Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Austria)#2003 coinage|Christian Charity coin]]
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