25-37. The Parable of the Good Samaritan.

25. a certain lawyer A teacher of the Mosaic Law differing little from a scribe, as the man is called in Mark 12:28. The same person may have had both functions that of preserving and that of expounding the Law.

tempted him Literally, "putting Him fully to the test"(Luke 4:12); but the purpose does not seem to have been so deliberately hostile as in Luke 11:54.

what shall I do to inherit eternal life? See Luke 18:18, and the answer there also given. It is interesting to compare it with the answer given by St Paul afterthe Ascension, Acts 16:30-31.

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