25. Now, a lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
26. He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read?”
27. He answered, “ ‘You shall 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 ‘your neighbor as yourself.’”
28. He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
29. But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30. Jesus answered, “A man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.