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?
• 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?”
• New Living Translation (NLT)The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Context of Luke 10:29

27He answered, “ ‘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, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” 28“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.” But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” 30In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.

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 16:15He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
• Luke 18:9To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:
• Leviticus 19:34The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
• Job 32:2But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.
• Romans 4:2If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God.
• Romans 10:3Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
• Galatians 3:11Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”
• James 2:24You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.
• Luke 10:36“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
• Matthew 5:43“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

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
• Careful
• Chance
• Fall
• Hire
• Mercy
• Trouble
• Brother
• Brotherly Kindness; Brotherly Love
• Law in the New Testament

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