We know that the Bible is the Word of God.
To really understand the Word of God, we would have to do some Bible study in order to know how to interpret the meaning of what is written in the Bible.
There are many resources that are available that have commentaries on the Word of God.
As much as most commentaries are correct interpretations of the Word of God, it is possible that some have questionable interpretations.
In the 1st reading, St. Paul warned the Galatians that some troublemakers among them wanted to change the Good News of Christ.
Essentially the Good News is about salvation and to love God and to love neighbour.
Any deviations from that essential message of the Good News would be questionable.
In the gospel, the lawyer, in order to justify himself, asked Jesus who is his neighbour, and Jesus responded with the parable of the “Good Samaritan”.
And Jesus asked him this question: Which of these three, do you think, proved himself a neighbour to the man who fell into the brigands’ hands?
The question that we have to ask ourselves is this: Who do we think is our neighbour?
But a deeper question for our reflection would be this: Who is God sending to us so that we can be a neighbour to them?
When we realise that the neighbours are not who we want them to be but who God is sending to us, then we will have an idea of what God is really saying to us in the Bible.