And if you practice doing good only to those who do good to you, what credit do you get for that? Even notorious sinners practice the same.

Does he praise the slave for doing what he was ordered to do?

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

and said to Him, "Tell us what sort of authority you have for doing as you do, or who is it that gave you such authority?"

Then Jesus said to them, "Nor am I going to tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do."

But Jesus reproved him, saying "Be quiet! Get out of him at once!" So the demon threw the man down in the midst of them and came out of him without doing him any harm.

But I say to you who listen now to me, practice loving your enemies, practice doing good to those who hate you,

But you must practice loving your enemies, doing good to them, and lending to them, despairing of nothing; so that your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

So they all continued to be utterly astounded at the greatness of God. Now while everybody was wondering at all that He was doing, He said to His disciples,

Happy is that slave whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.

Then He went out of the city and up the Mount of Olives, as He was in the habit of doing; and His disciples, too, followed Him there.