8/30/2026 - Trinity 13 (Luke 10:23-37)

Jesus Is Our Good Samaritan. The Law cannot help us or give us life. Rather, it confines everyone under sin as wounded and naked before God (Galatians 3:15–22). So it is that two figures of the Law, the priest and the Levite, passed by the injured man on the side of the road (Luke 10:23–37). Only the promised Seed of Abraham can rescue us and make us righteous before God. Only the Samaritan, our Lord Jesus, had compassion and loved his neighbor as himself (Leviticus 19:18). He came down to us...