Thanks Craig and Ray for your responses.
I planned to copy and paste as well for quick reference:
Dear Marques: I fail to see how God the Father can be linked to an "inn keeper?" Also if the Samaritan represents Jesus, since when would Jesus have to pay money to His Father to take care of someone. Also since when does Jesus (the Great Physician) need to pay someone to restore another to health over a long period of time. Jesus healed people quickly or at least "from that hour." Not weeks or months later, etc. Sometimes we can suffer from paralysis of analysis if we aren't careful, by assigned all kinds of things to these parables.
The Levi and the Priest represent the "children of the kingdom." The highest order in the tribes of Israel. It is they who should be inheriting the Kingdom of God first, but they will be last, as witnessed by the many sins attributed to them.
On the other hand, the Samaritans were despised by the Jews and elite of Jerusalem. Yet Jesus shows on several occasions (the one of ten lepers who returned to thank Jesus, the woman at the well, the Jews accusing Jesus of being a Samaritan with a devil) that He will give favor to certain Samaritans. It was the Samaritan in this parable who helped the stranger, and therefore kept the commandments of "Loving God and Loving Neighbor," (which was the thing that prompted this parable) not the Jews.
This parables, like all the others, have to do with the "many called, but few chosen."
Hope this helps your understanding.
God be with you,
Ray