If you’re walking, the road from Jerusalem to Jericho is dusty, long, and troubling: 18 miles, going down into the Dead Sea valley, dropping elevation by more than 3,000 feet, and marked by barren and inhospitable surroundings. In a day’s march, the voyager might encounter gloom or darkness, and even danger.
Which is exactly what was encountered—according to the famous parable told by Jesus—by “a certain man,” whose experience has stood for two millennia as a central lesson for charity and salvation, and which serves as a primary exemplar of the Corporal Works of Mercy, their several varieties brought to life here in Philanthropy Daily’s just-concluded “Working for Mercy” series.
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