III. La compasión en las parábolas más emblemáticas de Lucas

Abstract

The third part of the essay studies the compassion in the New Testament, and concretely, in the parables of the prodigal Son and the good Samaritan of Saint Luke. We study these two parables where in a clear way is manifested the mercy of God. God is a father who moves with compassion seeing the son who had lost and he runs to him, embraces and kisses him as a mother. The Samaritan is presented as a model of action, because seeing the man wounded on the way is moved with compassion and practiced the mercy with him. In both examples the sight precedes the internal feeling. Both evangelical texts teach us that the entrails are moved with compassion when the eyes are opened to the suffering of the people and that the mercy entails always an action and it could never remain as a mere feeling.