Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Luke 10:37

And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

KJV

ὁ δὲ εἶπεν· ὁ ποιήσας τὸ ἔλεος μετ’ αὐτοῦ. εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· πορεύου καὶ σὺ ποίει ὁμοίως.

Greek NT

At ille dixit : Qui fecit misericordiam in illum. Et ait illi Jesus : Vade, et tu fac similiter.

Vulgate

And he said, He that showed mercy on him. And Jesus said unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

ASV

But he said: He that shewed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: Go, and do thou in like manner.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
πορεύομαι
poreuomai
verb · 155×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἔλεος
eleos
noun · 27×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁμοίως
omoios
adverb · 31×

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: δὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: δὲ | RP: οὖν
  • δὲ — SBLGNT
  • δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • οὖν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Parable

Historic Christian voices

7 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.
1. Let us hear the oracles of God with fear, with fear and much trembling. For (it is said) Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice unto Him with trembling. Psalm 2:11 But if even our joy and our exultation ought to be with trembling, of what punishment are we not worthy, if we listen not with terror to what is said, when the things spoken, as now, are themselves fearful? For hav…
§96And first of all let us imitate the breadth of His love. For the Church, the Bride of Christ, is one; and yet so vast is the love of the divine Spouse that it embraces in His Bride the whole human race without exception. Our Savior shed His Blood precisely in order that He might reconcile men to God through the Cross, and might constrain them to unite in one body, however widel…

Cross-references

  • 1John 3:16 — Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
  • 1John 4:10 — Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
  • 1John 4:11 — Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
  • 1John 4:21 — And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
  • 1Pet 2:21 — For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
  • 2Cor 8:9 — For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
  • Eph 5:2 — And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
  • Hos 6:6 — For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
  • John 13:15 — For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
  • Luke 6:32 — For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
  • Matt 23:23 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have do
  • Mic 6:8 — He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
  • Prov 14:21 — He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.