The religious establishment had a very pinched and regimented script that they wanted Jesus to follow, but routinely, He flipped the script on them.  A great example of this flipping happened in the beginning of John 8.  In this situation, we read about Jesus being in the temple, teaching, early in the morning.  As He was teaching, the religious leaders interrupted Him by throwing a woman at His feet and making a very awkward commotion. 

Last week, we looked at the idea of flipping the script related to James and John asking Jesus about calling down fire to consume a Samaritan town who wasn’t welcoming Jesus. To their question, Jesus confronted their mindset and flipped the script when He rebuked them in Luke 9:56, “You do not know what kind of spirit you are of; for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” For this week’s blog, I’d like to add to last week’s thoughts and consider the script-flipping that Jesus did with the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10.  Jesus told this parable as an answer to the question of a Jewish leader who was wanting to justify himself in addition to trapping Jesus in a religious challenge.  The question that the Jewish leader asked Jesus was, “Who is my neighbor?”