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Luke 10:27Good Samaritan
He answered, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.'
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Interpretation

Jesus teaches a love neighbor that is worked out in study and play in Luke 10:27—look for "answered" and "'you". Align love neighbor in prayers we actually pray—brighten hope by remembering.

Context

Luke speaks here as gospel narrative writing, developing love neighbor. Read in Luke 10, its force becomes clearer. Listen for “answered” alongside “'you”.

Authorship & Historical Background

Early sources associate Luke with Luke the physician (companion of Paul). Modern scholarship on Luke sees Anonymous; author also wrote Acts; polished Greek historian‑theologian.. Date: AD 80–90. Luke addresses Broader Greco‑Roman audience.. Genre and setting: gospel narrative, in the Good Samaritan. A careful historian-theologian frames a universal horizon.

More details
Traditional:Luke the physician (companion of Paul)
Modern scholarship:Anonymous; author also wrote Acts; polished Greek historian‑theologian.
Date:AD 80–90
Audience:Broader Greco‑Roman audience.
Manuscripts & Textual Witnesses
Well–attested in Papyrus 45 (3rd century) and Papyrus 75 (early 3rd century). The quotation combines two Old Testament passages, and all manuscripts preserve this combination identically. The four aspects of love (heart, soul, strength, mind) appear in slightly different orders in various manuscripts, but all four are always present. This likely reflects different Greek translations of the Hebrew Shema. The Diatessaron (2nd century) confirms this reading.