The grateful Samaritan strongly recalls Naaman, the foreigner cleansed of skin disease who returns in acknowledgment of Israel’s God. Luke has already made Naaman programmatically important in Jesus’ Nazareth sermon (Luke 4:27).

Luke 4:27 explicitly names Naaman and Elisha and uses the foreign commander’s cleansing to challenge hometown presumption. This is the clearest New Testament use of 2 Kings because Jesus himself interprets the event as an example of God’s mercy reaching beyond Israel while many Israelites remained unhealed.

Luke’s grateful Samaritan who returns after cleansing shares meaningful outsider, skin-disease, healing, return, and gratitude motifs with Naaman in 2 Kings 5. Because Luke never explicitly identifies the Samaritan as a replay of Naaman, the connection remains possible and should be presented as a suggestive echo rather than a certain literary allusion.