Parable of the Good Samaritan rejecting authority figures in general, but in the sense of rejecting religious hypocrisy. By contrasting the noble acts of a despised religion to the crass and selfish acts of a priest and a Levite, two representatives of the Jewish religious establishment, some argue that the parable attempts to downplay the importance of status in the religious hierarchy (or importance of knowledge of scripture) in favor of the practice of religious principles. "The following is based on the public domain article Brotherly Love found in the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia" The story of the good Samaritan, in the Pauline Gospel of Luke
The Good Samaritan Window, Chartres Cathedral served as a popular subject for cathedral glazing programs in the thirteenth century. Three French cathedral windows fabricated between 1200 and 1215 function in this way: Sens ("c".1200), Chartres (1205/1215), and Bourges ("c".1215) . The Good Samaritan-Genesis typology is found as well in a window at Canterbury Cathedral. Images of the Good Samaritan windows at Bourges, Chartres, and Sens are provided by The Corpus of Medieval Narrative Art, an archive of high-resolution photographs of medieval "narrative art", concentrating on French 13th-century stained glass. They are copyrighted by Dr Stuart Whiting and available for legitimate academic purpose. The Good Samaritan window