Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
By chance (kata sugkurian). Here only in the N.T., meaning rather, "by way of coincidence." It is a rare word elsewhere and in late writers like Hippocrates. It is from the verb sugkurew, though sugkurhsiv is more common.
Was going down (katebainen). Imperfect active as in verse Luke 10:30. Passed by on the other side (antiparhlqen). Second aorist active indicative of antiparerxomai, a late double compound here (verses Luke 10:31-32) only in the N.T., but in the papyri and late writers. It is the ingressive aorist (hlqen), came alongside (para), and then he stepped over to the opposite side (anti) of the road to avoid ceremonial contamination with a stranger. A vivid and powerful picture of the vice of Jewish ceremonial cleanliness at the cost of moral principle and duty. The Levite in verse Luke 10:32 behaved precisely as the priest had done and for the same reason.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 10:31:
Luke 10:31
Hebrews 11:4
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