I've heard many sermons on the parable of the good Samaritan. However, I have never heard the story peeled back to a deeper level the way Bishop Barron explains in this Sermon. He points out the Jerusalem was considered a heavenly city on the hill while Jericho was the city of sin deep in a valley. The man who fell in with robbers was "on the way to Jericho" summarizes our own journeys in life when we move toward sin. Priests and Levites "traveling in the same direction" are too compromised by their own sin to save us. It is the Samaritan, an outsider just as Jesus of Nazareth, who saves the man. He washes/heals his wounds with "oil and water" (as Sacraments do today) and he pays 2 silvers, a cost the man cannot pay, just as Christ pays a debt we cannot pay. for own redemption. Beautiful sermon I wanted to share.