Who is my neighbour?

Walking down a dark alley, a man of a society, was journeying his way towards a place where he could find more opportunities, to settle down, and provide for his family. He set his path through the alley as it was the fastest way towards the destination, and he wished not to make it a longer journey than necessary. However, half way through the alley, a mob came out of now where and mugged him!  robbing him of all his belongings, they smashed his knee caps with a metal pipe and left him to bleed out.  

"This is it" he thought to himself, "I am gone, my family I have failed you..".

The environment began to blur to him and he saw a figure, in the dark, he stretched out his hands as to seek help. It was a man of God! Reputable, many of which knew of him as a righteous and pious person. He glimpsed over and walked passed him as far as he could be, ignoring him as one who would ignore a beggar on the road.

Barely holding on, another came by chance, this time it was a prophet, oh how many have heard his prophecies, many a times has he encouraged the masses, he came right up to the man in the ally, looked at him from 2 steps away, and then launched backwards keeping his distance. Paced off as fast as he could.

"It is hopeless, I am doomed" with that the man fainted.

There came a third man, rugged, with an unkept beard, full of tattoos and piercing, with a skull top, and a leather jacket, walking down the alley. He was wheeling down some goods that he was delivering. When he saw the man, he dropped his things and rushed down to check on the man who was left for dead. This third man was looked down on, and despised by the society of which the robbed man lived. Yet, despite that fact, this rough looking man, holstered the man on his shoulders and put him inside the wheeler. carrying the items by hand, and brought him to a hospital to be patched up, after spending a night to make sure the man was okay, this third man walked up to the counter and paid for the treatment, on top of that he gave an advanced payment to the hospital to keep the man in for another 2 weeks if need be and told them, the next time he had a delivery if the man still owed anything, he would cover it. 

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A Neighbour is one who looks beyond society, and shows compassion beyond all else. A neighbour is someone we should strive to be. To love our neighbour as our selves.

36 So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?”37 And he said, “He who showed mercy on him.”Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”Luke 10:36-37, New King James Version