Good Samaritan map: Jerusalem to Jericho road
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Jericho Road in the Good Samaritan story
One of the best-known stories in the Bible is a fictional illustration Jesus told to teach what kindness and compassion look like. A Samaritan helps a Jewish priest (the two groups are religious rivals). Robbers had bushwhacked the priest and left him half dead. It happened on the Jericho Road, while the priest was walking down from Jerusalem to Jericho through a barren stretch of land. There are plenty of locations along the way to ambush a person. Read the story in Luke 10:25–37.
Description
Downhill from Jerusalem to Jericho
The Good Samaritan in Jesus’s story was walking down from Jerusalem to Jericho. This map helps you see what “down” meant.
Jerusalem sits in the Judean hills. Jericho lies far below in the Jordan River Valley. Between them, the road winds through steep ridges and deeply cut valleys. This 3D Good Samaritan map traces that road in green so you can follow the setting of Luke 10:25–37.
Red pins identify Jerusalem and Jericho. Bethany and Bethlehem help you get your bearings, while the Dead Sea and Jordan River Valley show where the road fits into the surrounding country. A regional inset and a globe place the scene in its wider setting.
Keep the map beside you as you read the parable, or use it while preparing a Bible study or lesson. It gives you a clear way to explain the geography before discussing the wounded traveler, the people who passed him, and the Samaritan who stopped.
What the map shows:
- The highlighted road between Jerusalem and Jericho.
- 3D terrain showing the Judean hills and surrounding valleys.
- Labels for Jerusalem, Jericho, Bethany, Bethlehem, and the Dead Sea.
- A regional inset, globe locator, and north arrow.
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Downhill from Jerusalem to Jericho
Jesus set his story on a road that plunged from the Judean hills toward the Jordan River Valley. Jerusalem stood high above Jericho. When Jesus said the traveler was “going down,” he meant it literally. Follow that descent on the map and picture a man lying beside the road, stripped, beaten, and barely alive.
A priest came along. Then a Levite. Both belonged to the religious life of Israel. Both passed him by.
Then Jesus brought a Samaritan into the story. Jews and Samaritans had a long history of hostility. For Jesus’s Jewish listeners, this was an unlikely person to cast as the hero. Yet he was the one who stopped.
Helping cost him something. He treated the wounds with oil and wine, put the injured man on his own animal, and took him to an inn. He cared for him, paid for his stay, and promised to cover any further expense.
The story began when a religious expert asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” By the end, Jesus had turned the question around: Who had acted like a neighbor to the wounded man?
That gives a Bible study group something to discuss as they trace this road: What boundaries did the Samaritan cross before he ever crossed over to help?
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