Made answer (υπολαβων). Second aorist active participle of υπολαμβανω , to take up literally, and then in thought and speech, old …

Jesus answering. Jesus answered him in a very different manner from what he expected. By one of the most tender and affecting narratives t…

A certain man went down.—Better, was going down. We enter here upon the first of a series of parables. These parables dif…

And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wou…

St. Cyril of Alexandria: The lawyer, when praised by our Savior for having answered correctly, erupts in pride, thinking he ha…

The characters of the story must have the same significance they had to the original hearers. The two religious persons act contrary to love, thoug…

And Jesus answering said. Christ might have stated simply that the word neighbor extends indiscriminately to every man, because t…

And Jesus answering, said
The following things; which may either be considered as a narrative of matter of fact, or as a suppo…

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 neighbor w…