Luke 10:28

Luke 10:28

26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?”

27 So he answered and said, “ ^a‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ^b‘your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

28 And He said to him, “You have answered rightly; do this and ^ayou will live.”

29 But he, wanting to ^ajustify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

30 Then Jesus answered and said: “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among¹ thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

31 Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, ^ahe passed by on the other side.

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Thou hast answered right (orqwv apekriqhv). First aorist passive indicative second singular with the adverb orqwv. The answer was correct so far as the words went. In Mark 12:34 Jesus commends the scribe for agreeing to his interpretation of the first and the second commandments. That scribe was "not far from the kingdom of God," but this lawyer was "tempting" Jesus.

Do this and thou shalt live (touto poiei kai zhsh). Present imperative (keep on doing this forever) and the future indicative middle as a natural result. There was only one trouble with the lawyer's answer. No one ever did or ever can "do" what the law lays down towards God and man always. To slip once is to fail. So Jesus put the problem squarely up to the lawyer who wanted to know

by doing what. Of course, if he kept the law

perfectly always, he would inherit eternal life.

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