Parable of the Good Samaritan which they belong." Samaritans appear elsewhere in the Gospels and Book of Acts. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus heals ten lepers and only the Samaritan among them thanks him (), although depicts Jesus receiving a hostile reception in Samaria. Luke's favorable treatment of Samaritans is in line with Luke's favorable treatment of the weak and of outcasts, generally. In John, Jesus has an extended dialogue with a Samaritan woman, and many Samaritans come to believe in him. In Matthew, however, Jesus instructs his disciples not to preach in or Samaritan cities (). In the Gospels, generally, "though the Jews
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