Luke 6

6:26  Woe [unto you], when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets¹.

6:27  But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you¹,

6:28  bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.

6:29  To him that smiteth thee on the [one] cheek offer also the other¹; and from him that taketh away thy cloak withhold not thy coat also².

6:30  Give to every one that asketh thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

6:31  And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise¹.

*NOTE.--It is instructive to consider the statements of thesephilosophers and teachers referred to by McGarvey and Pendleton. TheGreek rhetorician and orator, Socrates (469-399 B.C.), in his "Adviceto Nicocles", states,

"What stirs your anger when done to you by others, that do not to others."

According to the Talmud Shabbath, Hillel (fl. 30 B.C.-A.D. 10), therenowned Jewish rabbi, proposes,

"What is hateful to you do not to your neighbor. This is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary."

The Chinese philosopher and teacher Confucius (551-479 B.C.) in hisAnalects 15:23 says, in what is called "The Silver Rule",

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Using ordinary research tools, I have not been able to locate thequotation attribted to Buddha. Perhaps McGarvey was referring to theHindu epic poem, "The Mahabharata", which states,

"Do nothing to thy neighbor which thou wouldst not have him do to thee hereafter." [E.S.]

6:32  And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye¹? for even sinners love those that love them.

6:33  And if ye do good to them that do good to you, what thank have ye¹? for even sinners do the same.

6:34  And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye¹? even sinners lend to sinners, to receive again as much.

6:35  But love your enemies, and do [them] good, and lend, never despairing¹; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High²: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

"To make our neighbor purchase, in any way, the assistance which we give him is to profit by his misery; and, by laying him under obligations which we expect him in some way or other to discharge, we increase his wretchedness under the pretense of relieving him."

6:36  Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful¹.

6:37  And judge not, and ye shall not be judged¹: and condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: release, and ye shall be released:

6:38  give, and it shall be given unto you¹; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over², shall they give into your bosom³. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.

6:39  And he spake also a parable unto them, Can the blind guide the blind? shall they not both fall into a pit²?

6:40  The disciple is not above his teacher¹: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher².

6:41  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye¹?

6:43  For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit¹.

6:44  For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes¹.

6:45  The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and the evil [man] out of the evil [treasure] bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh¹.

6:46  And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say¹?

6:47  Every one that cometh unto me, and heareth my words, and doeth them¹, I will show you to whom he is like:

6:48  he is like a man building a house, who digged and went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock¹: and when a flood arose, the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it²: because it had been well builded.

6:49  But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth without a foundation¹; against which the stream brake, and straightway it fell in; and the ruin of that house was great².