Monday, December 29, 2008

Word of the Day - 12/29/2008

Footpad

A footpad is a highwayman or robber who goes on foot.

At the outset of the parable of the "Good Samaritan", footpads attack a traveler. The traveler will receive compassion from an unlikely source, the Samaritan for whom the parable is named.

Jesus replied and said, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead." (Luke 10:30, NASB)

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