[I.N.R.I. by Peter Rosegger]@TWC D-Link bookI.N.R.I. CHAPTER XIX 7/16
He gave the host money to take care of the sufferer until he recovered.
Now, what do you say? The priests regarded him as a stranger, but the Samaritan saw in him his neighbour." Then they explained it to themselves: Your neighbour is one whom you can help and who is waiting for your help. The disciple Thomas now joined in the conversation, and doubted if you could expect a great prince to dismount from his horse and lift a poor beggar out of the gutter. Jesus asked: "If you rode by as a great prince and found Me lying wretchedly in the gutter, would you leave me lying there ?" "Master!" shouted Thomas in horror. "Do you see, Thomas? What you would do to the poorest, you would do to Me." One of the others asked: "Are we only to be kind to the poor, and not to the rich and noble ?" And Jesus said: "If you are a beggar in the street, and a prince comes riding past, there's nothing you can do for him.
But if his horse stumbles and he falls, then catch him so that his head may not strike against a stone.
At that moment he becomes your neighbour." Then some whispered: "It often seems as if He desired us to love all men.
But that is too difficult." "It's very easy, brother," said Bartholomew.
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