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Margaret Adams Parker
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Sketch for The Good Samaritan
Plaster over wire, wood
15 inches, 2009
Jesus’ life is an inversion, a repudiation, of Cain’s cry, “Am I my
brother’s keeper?” Jesus claims us as “brother and sister and
mother” (Mark 3:3). Having become, through his Incarnation, “like
his brothers and sisters in every respect” (Hebrews 2:17), he knows
all the hidden and broken places of our lives.
Teaching, loving, healing, he chooses to bear our
sins and fears and sorrows, entering even into our death. This
sketch for The Good Samaritan embodies that deep kinship and
all-embracing compassion, showing us the parable as emblematic of
Jesus’ own life and our lives as his followers. For Jesus is both
the one who comforts and the one who suffers. And we are called to
see Jesus in the face of those who suffer and, conversely, to act as
Jesus' hands as we comfort those in need.
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