Luke 10:25-28
What is written? (ESV)
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said to him, What is written in the Law? How do you read it? And he answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. And he said to him, You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.
What does it say?
A lawyer stood to test Jesus and asked him what he should do to inherit eternal life. Jesus in turn responded by asking him what was written and how he interpreted it. The lawyer answered by quoting two verses from the Law. The first was from Deuteronomy and said that one should love God with all his heart. The second was from Leviticus and said that one should love his neighbor as himself. Jesus said he answered correctly and that if he practiced them he would live.
What is its immediate context?
Jesus is in the midst of His public ministry, teaching the people while gaining notoriety. The lawyer quoted two passages in the Law (from Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18).
How Luke 10:25-28 is applied across Bible answers
Did Jesus live under the new covenant?
Jesus was asked about how the Old Law instructed about gaining eternal life (and never bothered to correct the Lawyer regarding a current 'New Covenant' system).
Must a New Testament writer always quote in context?
Jesus affirms the lawyer's application of two verses from the Mosaic Law to addressing the question of how one inherits eternal life.
Neither of the quotations the lawyer uses to answer the question of inheriting eternal life come from original contexts having anything to do with inheriting enteral life.
What is Scripture weighting?
In addressing his question, Jesus asks what is written in the Law -- all of it. He expects the lawyer to assess/condense/conclude what is written in all of the Law which the lawyer correctly does -- summing it up with two passages, equally applied (quite a brilliant assessment by the lawyer!!).
Who said scripture interprets scripture?
At Jesus' behest, the lawyer correctly concluded what was required to inherit eternal life, not from any explicit passage but from the full body of work in the Law and Prophets.
