26. He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you understand it?”
27. The expert 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 neighbor as yourself.”
28. Jesus said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
29. But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30. Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him up, and went off, leaving him half dead.
31. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side.