The Good Samaritan: Jericho-Jerusalem Road, Inn of Good Samaritan, St. George's Monastery, Wadi Qelt

Inn of the Good Samaritan
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Location
1. The Inn of the Good Samaritan is located about 8.5 miles (13.5 km.) east of Jerusalem on Hwy. 1, and about 6.5 (10.5 km.) west of Jericho.
2. The Inn is about halfway between Jerusalem and Jericho on an ancient road that linked traffic from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem and the coastal towns of the Mediterranean Ocean.
Historical Background
1. Interestingly, Jesus used real places and people in the story of the Good Samaritan, i.e., road, Jerusalem, Jericho, robbers, Samaritans, priests, Levites, and the Inn. Therefore, the possibility exists that the story was actually a real event that had happened.
2. The ancient road connecting the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem and beyond had an elevation difference of 3,400 ft. (1,036 m.). Jericho is at 800 ft. (244 m.) below sea level, and Jerusalem is at 2,600 ft. (792 m.) above sea level.
3. It was a dangerous road that was desolate in places, steep, curvy, with crooks, crannies, and caves where bandits and robbers could hide out and get away easily in the desert. It also lacked police protection in many places.
4. There were around 12,000 priests and Levites who lived in Jericho who used this road whenever they were summoned to serve in the temple in Jerusalem.
5. The rocky desert terrain around the Inn of the Good Samaritan was notorious for robbers. The local name for the area is Ma‘ale Adummim, which means red rocks. It’s believed the name was derived from the limestone stained red by iron oxide, but it’s also believed its name is due to the amount of blood that was spilled here by bandits and robbers.
6. Jesus and His disciples would have used this road repeatedly as they traveled between Jerusalem and Jericho.
7. The Inn of the Good Samaritan
Places of Interest
1. Byzantine Church
2. Museum (has many mosaics and artifacts from around Israel)
3. Cave 1, 2
4. Crusader Fortress
5. Hwy. 1
6. Jericho
7. Jerusalem
8. Ancient Road from Jericho to Jerusalem
9. Wadi Qelt
St. George’s Monastery
Location
1. St. George’s Monastery is located about 2.5 miles (4 km.) west of Jericho in a deep and breathtaking gorge called “Wadi Qelt.”
2. It’s just a stone’s throw from the ancient road connecting the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem and beyond. This well-traveled road was used by Jesus on a regular basis.
3. The story of the Good Samaritan took place on this road. For more on this story and event, please see the Inn of the Good Samaritan.
Historical Background
1. St. George’s Monastery is a Greek Orthodox cliff-hanging complex carved into a sheer rock wall in the Judaean Desert and is one of the most breathtaking sights in the Holy Land.
2. Starting in the 4th century, monks began to live in the many caves of Wadi Qelt.
3. The monastery of St. George was founded in the 5th century by John of Thebes, an Egyptian. He gathered a small band of five Syrian hermits who had settled around the cave where they believed the prophet Elijah was fed by ravens (1 Kings 17:1-7).
4. Tradition also holds that Elijah visited the cave by the monastery while traveling to the Sinai Peninsula as he fled the threats of Jezebel after he had killed the false prophets of Baal and Asherah (1 Kings 19:1-3).
5. However, it was named after its most famous monk, St George of Koziba, who came as a teenager from Cyprus in the 6th century after his parents died to follow the ascetic life in the Holy Land.
6. The monastery was destroyed in 614 AD by the Persians and was more or less abandoned after the Persians swept through the valley and massacred the fourteen monks who dwelt there. The bones and skulls of the martyred monks can still be seen today in the monastery chapel.
7. The Crusaders made some attempts at the restoration of the monastery in 1179. However, it was abandoned after Muslims regained control of the Holy Land and drove out the Crusaders.
8. In 1878, a Greek monk, Kalinikos, settled here and restored the monastery, finishing it in 1901.
Places of Interest
1. St. George’s Monastery
It is quite a hike to see the monastery, so only those in good physical shape should attempt it.
2. Lookout - Just to the west of the parking area is a trail that leads to a beautiful lookout area over the monastery for those just wanting to see the site without hiking down to it.
3. Monastery Upper Level - Elijah’s Cave
4. Monastery Middle Level - Main Church
5. Monastery Lower Level - Storehouses and vault where the remains of the early monks are kept.
6. Stairs from the inner court of the monastery lead to the cave-church of St. Elijah. From this cave, a narrow tunnel provides an escape route to the top of the mountain.
7. Wadi Qelt - Fertile ravine where small-scale farming and irrigation takes place.
8. Caves where monks lived.
9. Small Chapel

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Regarding the last part of the video. Who decides when a person is in need or lazy? So many things could have gone wrong in ones life and you could look fine but be so broken that not only are you in spiritual need but in need in general. Its also said in the bible that if someone asks you should give them. I didnt know Jerusalem was on a big hill. Good video

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Hiking Wadi Qelt in 1974/75. Very challenging.

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Great video on location. Certainly,geography and location helps us better understand this teaching. Thank you for your efforts in clarifying this parable to me.

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We don't have downloadable links but you can watch it directly on KZbin for your Bible Study. Will that work?

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This was much needed in my life. For there are many around me who I am helping who are lazy and I do want to get something for free. They are on thankful and unappreciative and they use people around the neighborhood as Pawns in a chess game. I helped them anyways because I thought that's what I was supposed to do as a good neighbor. And I've been praying. And this is my answer. Plus I think they are using the system for money so they can buy drugs. This is hard for me to believe but it's very plain to see. Even their food stamps they sell. And then call a church for food. During the covid many people took advantage that it was okay if your rent was late. I know a person who had a lot of money and made a church pay her rent just because she could get away with it. I pray for this woman because she will eventually kill herself with the life she's living. I give thanks to her monetarily and spiritually. But she is very rude and taking advantage of an elderly man now. Tomorrow I will tell her what God puts on my heart. She is not my enemy she's just doing what lost people do. And who knows if I hadn't become a Christian by the grace of God there go I. Thank you very much for this message I will let my neighbor's listen to this. It is the answer we've been waiting for. Praying for

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God bless you pastor I learned a lot about myself there ..and no doubt did many others , I saw down and jew lying down sleeping it looked like in a sleeping bag , not far from Shani Hotel in which we stayed, he had the big hat and everything in black , 3 of us walked past , we shouldn't have , I dont know if he was a lazy person or if he wasnt but we should have helped him , another man was with him I dont know he had a drink of something in his hand or a phone ... which I could make reparations anyway , is there a link for homeless people in Israel ? Thanks

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John 3:16

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At 26:50 an example of laziness & consequences is given, referencing 2Thes3:10. My understanding is that the epistle is admonishing them to not retire from life, waiting for Meshiah's return, which begins in chapter 2 - not that they were a lazy bunch of welfare-cases. I've been told that they were thinking there was no point on pressing forward in life, as it was all about to be set-straight by Yeshua's return. No? A good example of laziness, indifference, defeatist, surrender, ConMan & etc may be Prov 6:6-11 & 24:30-34. Those are the sorts of souls that are parasitic leeches, always taking, relying on the charitable hearts of the gullible. Those, for sure, shouldn't be helped-along.

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