neighbor or neighbour either one 'now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbour to him who fell among the robbers he said he who showed mercy on him this passage seems to suggest the samaritan was the neighbor while the other two were not the sentence love thy neighbor as thyself seems then to imply he the victim of robbers need only love the samaritan and not the other and similarly since they were not the the victim's neighbor did not have to love the victim then we are to love only those people who are neighbors to us i don't mean physical neighbors not everyone although true it does not say do not love those who are not your neighbors but it doesn't say to love them either