If I do not stop

Jesus told the now famous story of The Good Samaritan in which two religious leaders (a priest and a Levite) pass by a man who thieves beat and left for dead. The man was cared for instead, by a Samaritan, who would have been expected not to crae for an Israeli. Famed Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, Jr. has written this about the people in Jesus' parable:

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?”

But…the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to me?”

—Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)