Luke 10:35 The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. 'Take care of him,' he said, 'and on my return I will repay you for any additional expense.' Luke 10:37 "The one who showed him mercy," replied the expert in the law. Then Jesus told him, "Go and do likewise."
But Jesus did not respond as expected. He did not congratulate the lawyer as a man of good standing. To the contrary, he buckled the lawyer's knees and threw him into a ditch. He did so by telling a story, a parable.
When Jesus asks which of these three – the priest, the Levite, or the Samaritan – acted as a neighbor to the robbed man, the lawyer answers “The one who showed him mercy.” As Jesus often does, he turns the question of “who is my neighbor?” on its head and instead answers “who might be a neighbor to me?”
The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to be Jewish) who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road.
So going back, the lawyer stood up, and asked him a question: “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (Like you and me, the Jewish people believed in life after death and were very much concerned of what they should do to deserve it.) So Jesus answered the question with a question.
Your neighbours are the people who live near you, especially the people who live in the house or flat which is next to yours.
Old Testament Verses About Neighbors & Community “You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him.” “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.”
Luke 10 is the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the sending of seventy disciples by Jesus, the famous parable about the Good Samaritan, and his visit to the house of Mary and Martha.
The Magi arrived at Herod's palace in Jerusalem asking, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?”. Herod immediately feared a threat to his rule and was keen to locate the baby. He did this by asking the chief priests and teachers of the law.
Jesus is the only one to fulfill the law in its deepest intent. Jesus is the Good Samaritan.
Jesus recounts the parable in a conversation with a lawyer about the two fundamental commandments: loving God and loving a neighbor as oneself. The discussion is primarily taken up with the interpretation of the law, the Torah. Of all the questions that could be asked, the lawyer asks who his neighbor is.