Parable of the Good Samaritan is an illustration that Y’shua made up, but it was based on true situations at a site of many robberies and personal attacks by robbers. This site is four and a half miles east of Jerusalem on the road to Jericho, where in Bible times it was very dangerous. The Romans built a fort there to protect travelers. Today there is a good-sized city of 37,000, named Ma’ale Adumim. The Martyrius Monastery, founded in the seventh century, is there, as well as a museum.