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By chance (kata sugkurian). Here only in the N.T., meaning rather, “by way of coincidence.” It is a rare word elsewhere and in late writers like Hippocrates. It is from the verb sugkureō, though sugkurēsis is more common.
Was going down (katebainen). Imperfect active as in Luk 10:30. Passed by on the other side (antiparēlthen). Second aorist active indicative of antiparerchomai, a late double compound here (Luk 10:31, Luk 10:32) only in the N.T., but in the papyri and late writers. It is the ingressive aorist (ēlthen), came alongside (para), and then he stepped over to the opposite side (anti) of the road to avoid ceremonial contamination with a stranger. A vivid and powerful picture of the vice of Jewish ceremonial cleanliness at the cost of moral principle and duty. The Levite in Luk 10:32 behaved precisely as the priest had done and for the same reason.