Commentary on Luke The lawyer asks good questions and gives good answers There is no need to assign the lawyer an adversarial role In fact, the text suggests otherwise He calls Jesus "teacher," respectfully And Jesus engages him as an equal, responding to the lawyer's first question with a question Jesus agrees with the answer36 "Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?" 37 The expert in the law replied, "The one who had mercy on him" Jesus told him, "Go and do likewise"Even the demons are subject to us in Your name A careful look at the instructions Jesus gave these seventy (Luke 109) shows that Jesus had not originally commissioned them to cast out demons (as He did the twelve disciples in Luke 912) Therefore, we might regard this as an unexpected blessing of their ministry (3637) Jesus applies
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