<P> The numerous later artistic depictions of the parable include those of Rembrandt, Jan Wijnants, Vincent van Gogh, Aimé Morot, Domenico Fetti, Johann Carl Loth, George Frederic Watts, and Giacomo Conti . </P> <P> In his essay Lost in Non-Translation, biochemist and author Isaac Asimov asserts (despite portrayals of many good Samaritans in Luke 17: 11 - 19; Acts 8: 5 - 7; 15: 3, as well as John 4: 4 - 42, etc .) that at the time when the parable was included in the gospel, there were no good Samaritans; in his view, this was half the point of the parable . As Asimov put it, we need to think of the story occurring in Alabama in 1950, with a mayor and a preacher ignoring a man who has been beaten and robbed, with the role of the Samaritan being played by a poor black sharecropper . </P> <P> The story's theme is portrayed throughout Marvel's Daredevil . </P> <P> The parable of the Good Samaritan is the theme for the Austrian Christian Charity commemorative coin, minted 12 March 2003 . This coin shows the Good Samaritan with the wounded man, on his horse, as he takes him to an inn for medical attention . An older coin with this theme is the American "Good Samaritan Shilling" of 1652 . </P>

Bible commentary on the parable of the good samaritan