Section 8
he brought him to an inn and took care of him." This Samaritan signifies the Man-Savior, who was apparently a layman of low estate, despised and slandered as a low and mean Samaritan (John 8:48; 4:9) by the self-exalted and self-justified Pharisees, including the one to whom the Lord was talking in Luke 10:25 and 29. Such a Man- Savior, in His lost-one-seeking and sinner-saving ministry journey (19:10), came down to the place where the wounded victim of the Judaizing rob bers was in his miserable and dying condition. When He saw him, He was moved with com passion in His humanity with His divinity, and rendered him tender healing and saving care, fully meeting His urgent need (vv. 34-35).
In 10:34 and 35 all the points of the good Samaritan's care for the dying one portray, in His humanity with His divinity, the Man-Savior's merciful, tender, and bountiful care for a sinner condemned under law. This shows to the utter most His high standard of morality in His saving grace.
The Samaritan came to the man and bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and wine. The binding up of the wounds indicates that He healed him. Pouring on the man's wounds oil and wine signified giving him the Holy Spirit