10:33a–b
But: In this verse there is a change in the story. Something different happened. The Berean Standard Bible indicates this change with the conjunction But. Consider how you would naturally indicate such a change in a story in your language.
a Samaritan: The word Samaritan refers to a man from the district of Samaria. The Samaritans were the descendants of Jews who had married foreigners. They did not worship God in Jerusalem as the Jews did, and the Jews considered the Samaritans to be foreigners.
It may be helpful to include some of this implied information in the text or in a footnote. A suggested footnote is:
The Samaritans were the descendants of Jews who had married foreigners. They did not worship God in Jerusalem as the Jews did. The Jews hated the Samaritans and did not believe that the Samaritans were God’s people.
The Samaritan is the most significant of the three characters who saw the wounded man. In Greek, the word Samaritan occurs in an emphatic position in the sentence. Consider in what way a storyteller in your language might introduce such a person.
on a journey: The Samaritan was on a journey on the same road. The phrase on a journey fits the situation of the Samaritan who was far from his home.
10:33c
he…had compassion: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible translates as he…had compassion means “he felt very sorry for the man.” It refers to the Samaritan’s feeling of compassion. The same Greek word occurs in 7:13. Other ways to translate this clause are:
he felt very sorry for him (New Century Version)
-or-
his heart was filled with pity (Good News Translation)
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