--- title: Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A parable is a short story Jesus told about everyday life with a deeper meaning about God and ho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prod… # Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep Lesson 14 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/0/) — A parable is a short story Jesus told about everyday life with a deeper meaning about God and how to live; it makes the listener think and see himself in it. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/1/) — When a lawyer asked «Who is my neighbour?», Jesus told of a man robbed and left half dead: a priest and a Levite passed by on the other side, but a Samaritan — from a people the listeners disliked — stopped, bandaged him and paid for his care. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/2/) — Jesus ended: «Go and do likewise». - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/3/) — In the Prodigal Son a younger son wastes his share of his father's money and comes home ashamed; the father runs to welcome him, while the elder brother sulks at the party. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/4/) — In the Lost Sheep a shepherd leaves ninety-nine sheep to find one, and in the Lost Coin a woman sweeps her house for one silver coin; both celebrate when they find it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/5/) — Christians believe these stories show that God welcomes anyone who turns back (repentance), and that a neighbour is anyone in need — even someone from a group you were taught to dislike. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/7/) — The Good Samaritan was Jesus' answer to a lawyer's question «Who is my neighbour?»; «love your neighbour as yourself» was already a command in the Jewish law of the Hebrew Bible, which the lawyer knew. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/8/) — In the parable a man was robbed and left half dead; a priest and a Levite, a helper in the Temple, passed by on the other side of the road. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/9/) — A Samaritan, from a people many of Jesus' listeners disliked, stopped, cared for the man and paid an innkeeper to look after him. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/11/) — In the Prodigal Son a younger son took his share of his father's money, wasted it, and came home ashamed. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/12/) — The father ran to welcome the younger son and threw a feast for him. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/13/) — The elder brother, who had stayed at home, was angry that the father celebrated; the father told him «everything I have is yours» and that they had to celebrate because his brother was lost and is found. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/15/) — In the Lost Coin a woman searched her whole house for one lost silver coin and called her friends to celebrate when she found it. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/16/) — Jesus said there is joy in heaven over one person who turns back. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/17/) — Repentance means turning back: being sorry and changing direction. - ← previous: [Jesus' life and teaching](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/) - next →: [Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)