Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Luke 10:32

And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.

KJV

ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Λευείτης γενόμενος κατὰ τὸν τόπον. ἐλθὼν καὶ ἰδὼν ἀντιπαρῆλθεν.

Greek NT

Similiter et Levita, cum esset secus locum, et videret eum, pertransiit.

Vulgate

And in like manner a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

ASV

In like manner also a Levite, when he was near the place and saw him, passed by.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Λευΐτης
leuites
noun · 3×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
τόπος
topos
noun · 95×
ἀντιπαρέρχομαι
antiparerchomai
verb · 2×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁμοίως
omoios
adverb · 31×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: Λευίτης | WH/Treg: Λευίτης | NIV/RP: + γενόμενος
  • Λευίτης — SBLGNT
  • Λευίτης — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
  • + γενόμενος — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Parable

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1825Christ died out of love for us, while we were still "enemies."100 The Lord asks us to love as he does, even our enemies, to make ourselves the neighbor of those farthest away, and to love children and the poor as Christ himself.101 The Apostle Paul has given an incomparable depiction of charity: "charity is patient and kind, charity is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogan…
§2822Our Father "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."95 He "is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish."96 His commandment is "that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another."97 This commandment summarizes all the others and expresses his entire will.

Cross-references

  • Acts 16:28 — But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
  • Acts 18:17 — Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
  • Luke 17:16 — And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
  • Prov 27:10 — Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
  • Ps 109:25 — I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.