Luke Chapter 17 verse 16 Holy Bible
and he fell upon his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
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And, falling down on his face at the feet of Jesus, he gave the credit to him; and he was a man of Samaria.
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and fell on [his] face at his feet giving him thanks: and *he* was a Samaritan.
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And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
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He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.
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and he fell upon `his' face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - And he was a Samaritan. Apparently nine of these lepers were Jews, and only one a Samaritan. This man would not have been allowed to associate with Jews but for the miserable disease with which he was afflicted, and which obliterated all distinction of race and caste. It is the same now at Jerusalem; in the leper-houses, termed "Abodes of the Unfortunate," Jews and Mohammedans will live together. Under no other circumstances will these hostile peoples do this.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) And he was a Samaritan.--As in the parable of the Good Samaritan, St. Luke's purpose in the selection of the incident falls in with what may be called the Catholicity of his Gospel, the breaking down of every middle wall of partition that divided the Jew from the other nations of the world. As the narrative is peculiar to his record, we may reasonably believe that it was one of the facts with which he became acquainted in the course of his personal inquiries in Galilee and Samaria. It is significant, in this case, that the barrier had been already broken down for a time by the common pressure of calamity, but no enduring sense of fellowship had as yet taken its place. The nine would seem to have separated themselves from the Samaritan as soon as they were cleansed. Men want more than the "misery" which our common proverb associates with "strange" companions, before they learn the lesson of brotherhood in its fulness.