NEIGHBOR IS AS NEIGHBOR DOES

Luke 10:25-37 . . . But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?". . .

A lawyer was concerned with knowing who his neighbor was.            
But Jesus talked instead about what a good neighbor does.
The lawyer was assuming that he had the right to choose
as neighbors, for example, not Samaritans but Jews.
So Jesus told a parable to help the lawyer see
in choosing neighbors there’s no place for racial bigotry.
The hero of the story was an outcast in effect,
but he acted in a way the lawyer never would expect.
He did the thing a Levite and a priest had failed to do,
and proved himself a neighbor, although he was not a Jew!