Luke Chapter 10 verse 32 Holy Bible
And in like manner a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.
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And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side.
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and in like manner also a Levite, being at the spot, came and looked [at him] and passed on on the opposite side.
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And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
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In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.
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and in like manner also, a Levite, having been about the place, having come and seen, passed over on the opposite side.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 32. - And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. They both, priest and Levite, shrank from the trouble and expense of meddling with the poor victim of the robbers; perhaps a cowardly fear of being identified with the robbers was mixed with these feelings. The whole of their conduct was inhuman, but not unnatural; alas! how faithfully is it copied by multitudes of men and women professing Christianity now! The Levite's conduct was better and worse than his official superior's - better, in that he did feel a little pity, and stopped to look, no doubt compassionately, on the sufferer; and worse, because he selfishly strangled the noble impulse in its birth, and passed on to his own place without so much as throwing a cloth over the poor maimed body to shelter it from the scorching sun, or the cold night dew.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(32) Likewise a Levite.--The passage is memorable as the only mention of Levites in the Gospels. He is represented as at once better and worse than the priest--better in that he does not altogether turn aside, but "comes" and looks; worse in that his second thoughts are at variance with his first, and prevail against them. If he has more light, he also sins more against it. He, too, may have been coming, like the priest, from his week of service in the Temple.
