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 (the "dextera domini") extruding from foliage(?) apparently blessing the work and the window of the shoemakers. Panels 5-12 present the parable of the Good Samaritan; they are preceded by Christ telling the parable to two Pharisees who had asked "Who is my neighbor?" One of the Pharisees wears the "Judenhut" or "pilleus cornutus", a cone-shaped pointed hat worn by Jews in medieval Europe and some of the Islamic world. Jesus is seated with his right hand raised and his left hand holding a book, perhaps the book of the Gospels (Panel 4). The parable panels then follow: A traveler, described