en_obs-tn/content/27/08.md

General Information

Jesus continues to tell the story.

The next person to walk down that road was a man from Samaria

This introduces a new character. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-participants)

to walk down

This could mean to travel along. These people were traveling from one city to another. Make sure that it does not sound like they were just taking a walk.

(Samaritans and Jews hated each other.)

This is background information to tell the reader that the Samaritans and Jews were enemies. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background)

He saw he was Jewish, but he still had very strong compassion for him

This was surprising because the the Jews and Samaritans hated each other, so he would not have been expected to help the Jewish man. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)