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"In Luke's version of the story of Jesus' summary of the law, the teacher asks him to obvious follow-up question, 'who is my neighbour?' Jesus replies with the story of the Good Samaritan. A man, lying dying in the road having been brutally beaten and robbed, is ignored by two righteous but fearful priests, but then helped by a passing Samaritan. At different points of history he might have told the story in terms of Protestants and Catholics, or Sunnis and Shias, or Americans and Communists, or Evangelicals and gays - the point remains the same. The person who acted with grace and mercy towards 'the other' was the one who was the true neighbour.
This is another strange answer from Jesus. He had been asked who his neighbour was; the reply he gave was to explain how to be a good neighbour, the implication being that there is no one who is not our neighbour, no one to whom we should not show mercy. The 'other' in the world around me is everyone around me."

Other: Loving Self, God, and Neighbour in a World of Fractures by Kester Brewin, pp. 9-10