27. He answered, ‘ “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind”; and, “Love your neighbour as yourself.” ’
28. ‘You have answered correctly,’ Jesus replied. ‘Do this and you will live.’
29. But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’
30. In reply Jesus said: ‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half-dead.
31. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.