Religion1. Based on the article and your work in our class so far, what do you think makes this word important and what do you think its basic meaning is? Based on the text and how I interpreted the word Samaritan, I thought he was just talking. about Jesus receiving water from a woman who lived in Samaria. I have no idea what the point is, other than her being nice to him. When I went to church, I was always told that the basic "moral" of the story was to be kind to your neighbors, and just by reading the book of John, I decided that it There was no need to question it. John's main purpose is to show why people should believe in Jesus and that it is important to tell his stories to others so that they can also believe in the "messiah"2. How many times does the word appear in the New Testament in the NRSV? The word Samaritan appears five times out of six, in the New Testament, it appears in the gospels of Luke and John according to The NRSV Concordance Unabridged, By Kohlenberger. A. How many times, if and does the word appear in the Old Testament in the NRSV? The word Samaritan does not appear in the Old Testament at all, according to The NRSV Concordance Unabridged, by Kohlenberger.b. What could be significant about this? I think it's really significant because the word Samaritan appears in the New Testament rather than the Old, it's important because more people felt the need to talk about Samaritan in the New Testament. Apparently the authors of John and Luke found him more important than any of the other writers. I feel like this is really very important, due to the fact that this word is extremely unique to Luke and the fact that Luke is a synoptic gospel, it must come from the L source which makes it unique to Luke because it is not found. in none of the other Gospels. A different form of the word perhaps but this form is specific to Luke. John, on the other hand, has nothing to do with what the synoptic gospels say because it is not part of them. So, to find the meaning of John, you need to examine why the author of John decided to include them, in other words, examine the author's agenda for writing the book..