and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written:

Which one of these three do you think proved himself a real neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?"

Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this household, because he, too, is a [spiritual] son of Abraham;

So, He said, "A certain distinguished gentleman went to a distant country to receive a royal appointment [i.e., as king over a territory] and then return. [Note: This is the only parable of Jesus' that correlates with a known incident; that of Herod's son Archelaus going to Rome to receive from Caesar Augustus an appointment to rule over Judea, Samaria and Idumaea in