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...helped by a member of a group which was despised by Jesus' listeners.

I disagree as do others found by searching Good Samaritan enemy but you're saying the 77-year-old woman was ignored by all the 'proper, upright' people of the neighborhood who saw her plight but just passed by? And the ones who helped her were despised?

I think I still have a point with your interpretation of the parable.

[BwanaNdege]

My comment had nothing to do with the old woman being an ‘enemy’. In fact, it had very little to do with this incident. My comment was mainly directed at the interpretation of the parable of the Good Samaritan.

Luke 10:29, 36, 37 ESV

29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”...

36 Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” 37 He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”

All who tried to help the 77 year old woman were “just being neighborly”, as we say here in the South.