20. However, don’t rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
21. In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and the learned and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure.
22. All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.”
23. Then turning to His disciples He said privately, “The eyes that see the things you see are blessed!
24. For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see the things you see yet didn’t see them; to hear the things you hear yet didn’t hear them.”
25. Just then an expert in the law stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? ”
26. “What is written in the law? ” He asked him. “How do you read it? ”
27. He answered:Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.
28. “You’ve answered correctly,” He told him. “Do this and you will live.”
29. But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor? ”
30. Jesus took up the question and said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and fled, leaving him half dead.
31. A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.