But He was soon drawn into the conversation.

Someone mentioned the commandment which enjoins a man to love his neighbour, and, as often happens, the simplest things became confused and incomprehensible in the varied opinions of the worldly-wise.

One of the guests said: "It is remarkable how we do not reflect on the most important things because they are so clear; and yet if we do reflect on them by any chance, we don't understand them.

So that I really do not know who it is I should love as myself." "Your neighbour!" the disciple Matthew, who was sitting by him at table, informed him.
"That is all right, my friend, if only I knew who was my neighbour! I run up against all sorts of people in the day, and if one of them trips me up, he is my neighbour for the time being.

At this moment I have two neighbours, you and Zachariah.