In a lonely place, bandits attacked him. They robbed him of his money and beat him up.

After a little while a priest came by. He saw the man lying there, but did nothing to help. He just walked past, on the other side of the road.

Then a Levite (teacher of God's law) came along. He went and looked at the man, but he didn't help him either.

But a Samaritan (a religion who were despised by the Jews), travelling down the road, stopped when he saw the injured man.

He gently cleaned and bandaged his cuts, pity the man on his own donkey and took him to the nearest inn.

Next day when he had to leave, he gave the innkeeper some money and told him to take good care of the Jew.