Luke 10:29

Luke 10:29 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
• New International Version (NIV)But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
• English Standard Version (ESV)But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
• New King James Version (NKJV)But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Context of Luke 10:29

27The man replied, ‘It says that we must love the Lord our God with all our mind and with all our strength. We must love him with all that we are and in all that we think. It also says that we must love other people as much as we love ourselves.’ 28‘You have told me the right answer,’ Jesus said. ‘If you do this, you will have true life with God.’ But the man wanted to show that he had been right to ask a question. So he asked, ‘Who are the people near to me that I must love?’ 30Jesus answered him with a story: ‘A man was going down the road from Jerusalem to Jericho town. On the way, some men attacked him. They took away all his clothes and they hit him with sticks. He was almost dead when they left him. 31But it happened that a priest from the temple was going down that road. He saw the man, who was lying there. But he walked past him on the other side of the road.

Luke 10:29 word by word

Ὁ δὲ θέλων δικαιῶσαι ἑαυτὸν εἶπεν πρὸς τὸν Ἰησοῦν· καὶ τίς ἐστίν μου πλησίον;Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Butδέde · thenG1161
• heλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• willingθέλωthelō ethelō · to will/desireG2309
• to justifyδικαιόωdikaioō · to justifyG1344
• himselfἑαυτοῦheautou · themselfG1438
• untoπρόςpros · to/withG4314
• JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• whoτίςtis · which?G5101
• isεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• myἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• neighbourπλησίονplēsion · near/neighborG4139

Cross-references for Luke 10:29

• Luke 16:15Jesus replied, ‘You are happy when people like you. You want them to think that you are good people. But God sees inside you. He knows what you are thinking. The things that many people think are valuable are not valuable to God. He hates those things.’
• Luke 18:9Jesus told a story to teach other people. These people thought that they were very good in front of God. They thought that they were much better than other people.
• Leviticus 19:34People must love the person from a different country as they love themselves. They must remember the time when they lived in Egypt. Egypt was not their country. I am the Lord your God.
• Job 32:2Another man was also there. His name was Elihu, Barakel's son. Barakel was a descendant of Buz. He belonged to Ram's clan. Elihu became very angry with Job. He was angry because Job continued to say that he was not guilty. Job said that God was wrong to punish him.
• Romans 4:2God did not accept Abraham as right with him because Abraham had done good things. If God had done that, then Abraham would have been able to boast about himself. But he could not boast to God.
• Romans 10:3They have not understood the way that God accepts people. Instead, they tried to make their own way to become right with God. They refused to accept God's way that would make them right with him.
• Galatians 3:11We know that the Law can not cause anyone to become right with God. That is clear because the Bible says, ‘The person that God has accepted as right will live because they trust him.’
• James 2:24So you see how God accepts someone as right with himself. That person must not only believe in God. He must also do good things to show that he has faith.
• Luke 10:36Then Jesus asked the teacher of God's Law a question. He said, ‘Three men saw the man that was lying on the road. Which of them showed love to him, like a real friend?’
• Matthew 5:43You have heard people say, “Love the people who are your friends. But hate those who want to hurt you.”

Commentaries on Luke 10:29

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 29Willing to justify himself - Wishing to make it appear that he was a righteous man, and that consequently he was in the straight road to the kingdom of God, said, Who is my neighbor? supposing our Lord would have at once answered, "Every Jew is to be considered as such, and the Jews only." Now as he imagined he had never been deficient in his conduct to any person of his own nation, he thought he had amply fulfilled the law. This is the sense in which the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29To justify himself - Desirous to appear blameless, or to vindicate himself, and show that he had kept the law. Jesus wished to lead him to a proper view of his own sinfulness, and his real departure from the law. The man was desirous of showing that he had kept the law; or perhaps he was desirous of justifying himself for asking the question; of showing that it could not be so easily settled; that a mere reference to the “words” of the law did not…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-37Verses 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29Who is my neighbor?: A neighbor, in this context, was normally identified as a fellow Israelite.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2929. willing--"wishing," to get himself out of the difficulty, by throwing on Jesus the definition of "neighbor," which the Jews interpreted very narrowly and technically, as excluding Samaritans and Gentiles [Alford].Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 10:29

• Commandments
• Duty
• Jesus, the Christ
• Lawyer
• Love
• Neighbor
• Readings, Select
• Self-Righteousness

In the dictionaries

• Jesus
• Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus
• Careful
• Chance
• Fall
• Hire
• Mercy
• Trouble
• Brother
• Brotherly Kindness; Brotherly Love

Commentaries on Luke 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings