Landscape with the Good Samaritan Landscape with the Good Samaritan Landscape with the Good Samaritan is a 1638 oil on oak panel painting by Rembrandt. It is one of only six oil landscapes by the artist and with "The Girl in a Picture Frame" and "The Scholar at the Lectern", it is also one of only three Rembrandt paintings in Polish collections. It shows the parable of the Good Samaritan from the Gospel of Luke. It was bought at a Paris auction by Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine and therefore passed into the Polish noblewoman Izabela Czartoryska's collection at the Dom Gotycki at Puławy. That
Parable of the Good Samaritan wounded man. In his view, the help received from a hated Samaritan is like the kingdom of God received as grace from an unexpected source. John Calvin was not impressed by Origen's allegorical reading: Francis Schaeffer suggested: "Christians are not to love their believing brothers to the exclusion of their non-believing fellowmen. That is ugly. We are to have the example of the good Samaritan consciously in mind at all times." Other modern theologians have taken similar positions. For example, G. B. Caird wrote: The meaning of the parable for Calvin was, instead, that "compassion, which an enemy showed to