THE PARABLE OF THE
GOOD SAMARITAN
"Can you write, Sambo?"
"No, Suh."
"Can you read?"
"No suh, but my wife can read."
"Well, do you know the Bible?"
"Ize pretty good on de Bible,
I know de Bible from lid to lid."
"What part of the Bible do you like the best?"
"Well, suh, I likes de New Testament."
"What book?"
"De book of de Parables, Suh."
"Which parable?"
"Why, ah likes de parable of de good Samaritan."
"Tell me abut the parable of the good Samaritan."
"Once upon a time a man went to Jerusalem
and he fall among thieves and the thorns grew up
and choked that man. And he went on and did not have
no money and he met the Queen of Sheba, and she
give dat man, yes suh, she give dat man a thousand
talents of gold and a hundred changes of raimment
and he get in dat chariot and he drive furiously.
When he was driving along under a big limb,
his hair done got caught and left him hanging
dere asleep, his wife Delilah, she come along
and cut off his hair. Den he dropped to de stony ground.
and it began to rain
and it done rained fo fawty days and fo
fawty nights and he hide himself in a cave.
Along come a man and say, "Come and have supper wit me"
and he say, "No, I can't, I have married a wife
and can't come." And dat man compel him
to come on in. He went wit him and dey
come to Jerusalem and dere he see Queen Jezabel sitting
"high up in da window". And when he see her he say,
"Trow dat woman down!" So dey trow her down,
And he say, "Trow her down some mo!"
So they trowed her down seventy times and da
fragments dey pick up fill twelve baskets.
Now whose wife do you tink she will
in duh resurrection?"