Luke 10:25-37
When we hear the word "Samaritan" these days, we think of a good person.
But it was totally different to Jesus' audience. Go back and read Ezra and Nehemiah to see the beginning of the enmity between the Jews and the Samaritans.
So think of the group you hate most, and put them in the place of this Samaritan in Jesus' parable. That is Jesus' point.
For example, to the conservative American Christian, out on the web you can find several renditions of "The Parable of the Good Muslim", for example http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jonathanstorment/2018/01/parable-good-muslim/ https://michaelpahl.com/2016/03/18/the-parable-of-the-good-muslim/ https://www.brianniece.com/good-muslim-parable/
Who is your Samaritan? A Muslim? A foreign worker? The African who comes by trying to sell you stuff while you're eating?
That is who Jesus is taking about when he said "Samaritan".
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