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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 02:02:20 JST Bread up, Bro
   I've seen an uptick in people drawing passages from the bible and not understanding the context.
   
   When he is talking with the jewish leaders of the temple or "expert in law" you should understand that the story is him responding to someone adversarial, and thus requires thinking.
   
   In the case of the good Samarian, he was asked "who is my neighbor" but the answer was "who was a neighbor to this man"
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 02:06:20 JST Bread up, Bro

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     So if you want to be very literal what you should do is show mercy upon the man who has been set upon by robbers.
     
     The problem is people use this to say "this is who your neighbor is" - but Jesus doesn't really answer that in a simple way here.
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 21:14:49 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     You could say people doing the "foreigners/acting kind to everyone/any and everyone close by you are your neighbors" bit are just doing the declarative version of what the lawyer did in the interrogative to Christ. People are still attempting to justify themselves and their own righteousness.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 21:17:02 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @SuperSnekFriend right. to me what it seems like is happening in the parable is Jesus is saying "you know who your neighbor is, don't pretend otherwise" and has shown this by them knowing who acted like a neighbor to him.
     
     This is why I pointed out the difference between what the stated question was and what the answer was. Jesus never says "this man is your neighbor"