Love your neighbour as yourself

²⁶“What do the Scriptures say? How do you interpret them?”

²⁷The man answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbour as you love yourself.’”

²⁸“You are right,” Jesus replied; “do this and you will live.”

²⁹But the teacher of the Law wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbour?”

³⁰Jesus answered, “There was once a man who was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when robbers attacked him, stripped him, and beat him up, leaving him half dead. ³¹It so happened that a priest was going down that road; but when he saw the man, he walked on by on the other side. ³²In the same way a Levite also came there, went over and looked at the man, and then walked on by on the other side. ³³But a Samaritan who was traveling that way came upon the man, and when he saw him, his heart was filled with pity. ³⁴He went over to him, poured oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them; then he put the man on his own animal and took him to an inn, where he took care of him. ³⁵The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him,’ he told the innkeeper, ‘and when I come back this way, I will pay you whatever else you spend on him.’”

³⁶And Jesus concluded, “In your opinion, which one of these three acted like a neighbour toward the man attacked by the robbers?”

³⁷The teacher of the Law answered, “The one who was kind to him.”

Jesus replied, “You go, then, and do the same.” (Luke 10:26-37 Good News Translation GNT).

Love your neighbour as yourself.

Shalom.

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