Luke 10:37

And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise. AND HE SAID, HE THAT SHOWED MERCY ON HIM. He does not answer, 'The Samaritan'-that would have sounded heterodox, heretical-but "He that showed mercy on him." It comes to the same thing, no doubt, but the circumlocution is significant. THEN SAID JESUS UNTO HIM, GO, AND DO THOU LIKEWISE. Remark: O exquisite, matchless teaching! What new fountains of charity has not this opened up in the human spirit-rivers in the wilderness, streams in the desert! what noble Christian Institutions have not such words founded, all undreamed of until that Divine One came to bless this heartless world of ours with His incomparable love-first in words, and then in deeds which have translated His words into flesh and blood, and poured the life of them through that humanity which He made His own! But was this pa...

25-37 If we speak of eternal life, and the way to it, in a careless manner, we take the name of God in vain. No one will ever love God and his neighbour with any measure of pure, spiritual love, who is not made a partaker of converting grace. But the proud heart of man strives hard against these convictions. Christ gave an instance of a poor Jew in distress, relieved by a good Samaritan. This poor man fell among thieves, who left him about to die of his wounds. He was slighted by those who should have been his friends, and was cared for by a stranger, a Samaritan, of the nation which the Jews most despised and detested, and would have no dealings with. It is lamentable to observe how selfishness governs all ranks; how many excuses men will make to avoid trouble or expense in relieving others. But the true Christian has the law of love written in his heart. The Spirit of Christ dwells in...

Verse 37. _HE THAT SHOWED MERCY_] Or, _so much mercy_. His _prejudice_ would not permit him to name the _Samaritan_, yet his _conscience_ obliged him to acknowledge that he was the only righteous person of the three. _GO, AND DO THOU LIKEWISE_] Be even to thy enemy in distress as kind, humane, and merciful, as this Samaritan was. As the _distress_ was on the part of a _Jew_, and the _relief_ was afforded by a _Samaritan_, the lawyer, to be consistent with the decision he had already given, must feel the force of our Lord's inference, that it was _his_ duty to act to any person, of whatever nation or religion he might be, as this _Samaritan_ had acted toward his countryman. It is very likely that what our Lord relates here was a real matter of fact, and not a _parable_; otherwise the captious lawyer might have objected that no such case had ever existed, and that any inference drawn fro...

HE THAT SHOWED MERCY - His “Jewish” prejudice would not permit him “to name” the Samaritan, but there was no impropriety, even in his view, in saying that the man who showed so much mercy was really the neighbor to the afflicted, and not he who “professed” to be his neighbor, but who would “do nothing” for his welfare. GO, AND DO THOU LIKEWISE - Show the same kindness to “all” - to friend and foe - and “then” you will have evidence that you keep the law, and not “till” then. Of this man we know nothing farther; but from this inimitably beautiful parable we may learn: 1. That the knowledge of the law is useful to make us acquainted with our own sinfulness and need of a Saviour. 2. That it is not he who “professes” most kindness that really loves us most, but he who will most deny himself that he may do us good in times of want....

EXPOSITION LUKE 10:1 _The mission of the seventy. The Lord_'_s words to them of instruction and direction and warning._ LUKE 10:1 AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED OTHER SEVENTY ALSO. That is to say, after the events just related which had taken place in the north of the Holy Land. "Alter these things" formally began the solemn marches in the direction of Jerusalem, which ended, as we have stated, in the last Passover. Roughly speaking, the seventy were first sent out about the October of the last year of the public ministry. The manuscripts vary between seventy and seventy two. The preponderance of authority is in favour of seventy. The Sanhedrin numbered seventy-one. The elders appointed by Moses were seventy. The

AND HE SAID, HE THAT SHOWED MERCY TO HIM,.... Meaning the Samaritan; which he was obliged to declare, though of another country and religion, and accounted as an enemy; yet the case was so plain, as put by Christ, that he could not with any honour or conscience, say otherwise: THEN SAID JESUS UNTO HIM, GO AND DO THOU LIKEWISE; such like acts of beneficence and kindness, though to a person of a different nation and religion, and though even an enemy; and by so doing, thou wilt not only appear to be a good neighbour thyself, but to love thy neighbour as thyself....

Luke 10:25. _And, behold a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?_ That was a most appropriate answer to a lawyer. « You ask me what you should do; well, you profess to be a teacher of the law, you ought, therefore, to know what is written in the law.» Luke 10:27. _And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live._ This lawyer was one of those people who know the law, yet do it not. No doubt Jesus struck the nail on the head when he gave him t

CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Seventy Appointed. (Luke 10:1)_ 2. The Return of the Seventy and the True Rejoicing. (Luke 10:17) 3. Jesus Rejoiced in Spirit. (Luke 10:21) 4. The Question of the Lawyer. (Luke 10:25) 5. The Parable of the Good Samaritan. (Luke 10:30) 6. Martha and Mary. (Luke 10:38 .) Luke 10:1 Seventy others are commissioned by Him to be His

THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT (Mark 12:28 *, Matthew 22:34 *), and the PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN (Lk. only). The inquirer puts his question in a different form, but the meaning is the same. And in Lk. Jesus elicits the answer from the questioner, and commends him. Luke 10:29 is thought by some to be merely Lk.'s device, a peg on which to hang the parable, which existed in an independent form. For the parable answers the question Whose neighbour am I? not Who is my neighbour? (_cf. Luke 7:41_ *). But the question Whose neighbour am I? is after all the more important, and it would be like Jesus to turn the problem round so as to emph

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