The expert in the law replied, the one who had mercy on him. Jesus told him, go and do likewise — the lawyer cannot bring himself to say the Samaritan — he says the one who had mercy. The recognition is the correct recognition; the go and do likewise is the application. The parable does not answer who is my neighbor in a way that limits the obligation — it answers by making the asker into the one who becomes a neighbor by showing mercy.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

Publish a note on this verse