Leviticus 19:18
Luke 10:29-37
Justify himself; maintain that he could not be condemned for having broken the divine law.Who is my neighbor? who is the person whom I am to love as myself? Jericho; about twenty miles north-east of Jerusalem, and seven from the Jordan.Fell among thieves; more exactly, fell among robbers. The road from Jerusalem to Jericho led through a wilderness abounding in narrow and rocky passes, and was anciently, as now, infested with robbers. By chance; without any design to help the Jew, or knowledge of his condition. A Levite; the Levites assisted the priests in the services of the temple. The love which the law of God requires, leads those who have it to do good, not merely to their friends or countrymen, but, as they have opportunity, to all, in imitation of Him who makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends his rain on the just and on the unjust, and "who, though he was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." Two pence; in value about twenty-eight cents, or the price of two days' labor. Mt 20:2.The host; the keeper of the inn. Was neighbor; the ruler, who would have restricted the word neighbor to a very narrow circle of friends, is shown that all men whom he has the power of benefiting are his neighbors, and that he owes to all a debt of love and self-denial.
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