When prominent Evangelical influencers popularize phrases like "toxic empathy," you know it's time to get back to biblical basics and see what the Scriptures these people so proudly proclaim really have to say about love for both our neighbor and the stranger in need. I've uploaded a quartet of images from international artists in the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection illustrating Christ's classic tale of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37 to The Parables of Jesus gallery in The Bible Stories and Parables section, where he holds up the Samaritan, a figure much reviled by his Jewish audience, as an exemplar of the good neighbor. This would be the modern equivalent in many Christian circles of the Good Muslim or the Good Transexual. Beginning upper left, clockwise, the Greek painter who goes by the name of Fikos presents an image of Christ looking on as the Samaritan offers help to a Jew attacked by thieves and left on the road for dead in a Neo-Byzantine style. New Mexico Woodcarver Marie Romero Cash shows the encounter in a sculpted piece, following the traditions of the saint-making artists of the American Southwest. Czech Ex-Libris Maker Emilie Tomanova depicts a night time rescue in a darkly-tinted etching, while Nicaraguan Painter Jose Ignacio Fletes Cruz sets the scene in a tropical landscape of brilliant color. (John Kohan)