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The Road From Jerusalem To Jericho
Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 20, 2022 (message contributor)
Jesus told the Parable of the Good Samaritan and said that "a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho", Matoon explains that "It was on this road where the victim was mugged. This road was about 17 miles long and it was a very dangerous path to travel. It was steep. Jerusalem is about 2300 feet above sea level and Jericho, which is near the Dead Sea, is about 1300 feet below sea level. This means that a person traveling from these two towns would travel on a wilderness, desolate road that dropped 3,600 feet in altitude.
The narrowness, the ravines, the almost inaccessible cliffs, the caverns, and the sudden turns in this road made it ideal for thieves to ambush travelers and steal their money. They could ambush their victims, and quickly flee almost beyond the possibility of pursuit. You took your life into your hands when you traveled on this route. Travel was so bad that the road was named, "The Red Way or the Bloody Way." It was like a gauntlet of greed and danger. In the 19th century it was still necessary to pay safety money to the local Sheiks before one could travel on it."
Maybe the Jewish traveler should not have been on this road.
Maybe he placed himself in great danger because of this unsafe journey.
Maybe he could have helped himself and saved others the trouble if he had planned carefully.
But the Good Samaritan didn't use any of these reasons as an excuse not to minister to a hurting person that was placed in his path.
It is called unconditional love...and it comes to us only from the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.
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