25 [ref]Then look, a lawyer stood us to test him, asking, “Teacher, what do I need to do to inherit eternal life?”

26 “Well, what’s written in the scriptures?” responded Yeshua. “How do you understand them?”

27 [ref]“You must love the master, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, and all your strength and all your mind,” he replied. “Also, you must love your neighbour as yourself.”

28 [ref]“You’ve answered correctly,” answered Yeshua, “so do that and you’ll live forever.”

29 But the lawyer wanted to justify his lifestyle, so he asked, “And who’s my neighbour?”

30 Yeshua replied with this: “Once a man was walking downhill from Yerushalem to Yericho when a group of robbers grabbed him and took everything including his clothes, then took off leaving him there wounded and half-dead. 31 Then it so happened that a priest came down that same road, but when he saw him he continued past on the other side of the road. 32 Similarly, a priestly worker (a Levite) arrived at that place and when he saw him he too passed by on the other side. 33 [ref]Then a man from Samaria[fn] who was on a trip came across him, and when he saw him he felt sorry for him 34 and went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring olive oil and wine on them, then put him on his own animal and took him to a roadhouse and looked after him. 35 The next day he took out two coins and gave them to their host, instructing, ‘Look after this guy and if it costs more than this, I’ll reimburse you on my way back.’

36 “So which of those three do you think acted like the neighbour of the one attacked by robbers?”

37 “The one who cared for him,” replied the lawyer.

“Then you go and do the same,” Yeshua told him.