Samuel Anoints David

¹⁶The ^Lord said to Samuel, ‘How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.’²Samuel said, ‘How can I go? If Saul hears of it, he will kill me.’ And the ^Lord said, ‘Take a heifer with you, and say, “I have come to sacrifice to the ^Lord.”³Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for me the one whom I name to you.’⁴Samuel did what the ^Lord commanded, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, ‘Do you come peaceably?’⁵He said, ‘Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the ^Lord; sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.’ And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. ⁶ When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, ‘Surely the ^Lord’s anointed is now before the ^Lord.’ ⁷But the ^Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the ^Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the ^Lord looks on the heart.’⁸Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, ‘Neither has the ^Lord chosen this one.’⁹Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, ‘Neither has the ^Lord chosen this one.’¹⁰Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, and Samuel said to Jesse, ‘The ^Lord has not chosen any of these.’¹¹Samuel said to Jesse, ‘Are all your sons here?’ And he said, ‘There remains yet the youngest, but he is keeping the sheep.’ And Samuel said to Jesse, ‘Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here.’¹²He sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome. The ^Lord said, ‘Rise and anoint him; for this is the one.’¹³Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the presence of his brothers; and the spirit of the ^Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. Samuel then set out and went to Ramah.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

²⁵ Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’²⁶He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’²⁷He 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 neighbour as yourself.’²⁸And he said to him, ‘You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.’ ²⁹ But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’³⁰Jesus replied, ‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.³¹Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.³²So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.³³But a Samaritan while travelling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity.³⁴He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.³⁵The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, “Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.”³⁶Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?’³⁷He said, ‘The one who showed him mercy.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go and do likewise.’