Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origins 156. .
The word origin today is the good Samaritan.
Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. Nowadays,
any person who helps another person unconditionally. Unconditionally means
like you really don't expect anything in return. You're just doing it to be
like a good person, especially a stranger in times of
trouble or distress. You know, when you really
need it , could be called a good Samaritan. Yeah. We, especially are
more likely to even use it with a stranger because you know somebody like
your family or close friend may feel a little
obligated to you. The good Samaritan doesn't. He's like a
complete usually a complete stranger to you. So
he is not as obligated to help you, but yet
he does when you really need it. All right. Let's continue.
The origin of this term is directly from the New Testament of the Bible.
Luke 10 30 - 10 37. It is a parable. A parable remember that's,
that's a story that tries to teach a lesson , especially
like in the religious sense and especially by
like Jesus here is parable by Jesus. So this story
you know, according to the Bible is actually told by Jesus.
It started to be used as a noun phrase in the
1600' s. Okay. Let's continue. According to the Bible story,
a Jew is robbed, beaten and left to die
on the side of the road. So he was really left there in bad shape just
just kind of moaning and you know, probably
was was going to die if nobody helped him. A priest
passed him by. So a priest is actually a Jewish priest passed by.
You would think this is the person that should most likely probably try to help
him. But he didn't he passed him by,
and did not help. A Levite you know, also another Jew that was another type of a
Jewish tribe at that time also passed him by . Finally, a man from
Samaria which is part of modern-day Palestine
was the only one to stop and help to save the man's life.
And they say that at that time. You know the Sumerians and the Jews really
didn't kind of get along. They kind of had conflict or they had fighting. They
didn't really like each other. Even at that time, Jews and Sumerians
were at odds with each other. So you know, we say this because here we are
2000 years later and Samaria was actually part of
modern-day Palestine. And today the Jews and the Palestinians
are not exactly really close. They do have some conflict. Even these
days, So it's kind of ironic about this story.
Let's continue. In the US many states have also
created good samaritan laws
to protect good samaritans from being sued
in case of further injury caused by any attempts to help.
Save an injured man. Yeah. They do recognize this, so this is to try to
at least let people you know not be so afraid to help people. Because nowadays
we've probably heard of stories where people tried to help someone that was
sick or hurt and then you know, maybe they did something that
person got further injured than that person sued the person that tried to
help. That could happen. So these states
actually made these laws and they used that title. They called it a good
Samaritan Law. So a number of states have that. So just to
encourage people to try like not to be afraid to help other people.
Just in case you you're afraid that oh, No. I don't want to get involved. If i get
involved who knows i'll probably end up getting sued, if I do something slightly
wrong. So that's why they have these laws. All
right. Let's continue. Okay good.
All right. And we just have three examples to cover
what we mean here. That good Samaritan risked his own life
to pull her out of a burning car. Yeah. Maybe the lady had an accident. The car
was caught on fire. And you know, a car that's on fire you know
there's always a chance that it could explode at any minute.
So this person, a total stranger ran over tried to help her pull the door.
Often pulled her out. So he's definitely a good Samaritan.
All right. Number two. We had some car trouble late at night and got stuck on
the side of the road. Luckily, a good Samaritan stopped and
helped us to get our car started again you know,
maybe this guy had some mechanic ability or mechanic experience
and he helped him out. So he was just nice enough to do that.
He was again a total stranger So he was a good Samaritan.
All right. Here's the last one. Some priests will repeat the story of the
good Samaritan during church services to teach
good moral values. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. I hope it was
informative. Thank you for your time. Bye- bye.