is designed to smoke out Jesus’ supposedly heretical views on God’s wider plans for the whole world, and so to show that the lawyer was right to challenge him. It does indeed produce from Jesus an answer about the wide-reaching grace of God, but the story Jesus tells makes it clear that these views are not heretical, but rather the true fulfilment of the commandment which the lawyer claims to regard as vital. What is at stake, then and now, is the question of whether we will use the God-given revelation