Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Samaritan—one excommunicated by the Jews, a byword among them, synonymous with heretic and devil (John 8:48; see on Luke 17:18).
had compassion—His best is mentioned first; for "He who gives outward things gives something external to himself, but he who imparts compassion and tears gives him something from his very self" [GREGORY THE GREAT, in TRENCH]. No doubt the priest and Levite had their excuses—It is not safe to be lingering here; besides, he's past recovery; and then, may not suspicion rest upon ourselves? So might the Samaritan have reasoned, but did not [TRENCH]. Nor did he say, He's a Jew, who would have had no dealings with me (John 4:9), and why should I with him?
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 10:33:
Leviticus 19:18
Luke 10:25
John 4:9-12
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