People who asked Jesus follow up questions usually didn’t like the answers. I haven’t done an exhaustive study but one of the big times I can think of happens in Luke 10. An “expert in the law” asked Jesus what he needed to do to inherit eternal life.
Luke 10:26-29,
26 He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” 27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
From here, Jesus goes on to give the parable of the Good Samaritan. A man was traveling down the road, got robbed, and left for dead. People who are usually considered holy and helpful passed by and did nothing, and then the person who everyone listening would look down upon went above and beyond to help the stranger out. Jesus concludes by asking who proved to be the neighbor to the injured man. The questioner had to admit that it was the one who showed mercy.
Jesus concludes by telling him to go and do likewise. Most of the time when people in the Bible then (or us today) give Jesus these follow up questions it’s because we want Jesus to agree with us or let us off the hook for something we don’t want to do. For many aspects of our Christian-walk, the right answer is rarely the easy answer.
We only want to be neighborly to the people who are easy to love. We only want to show kindness to the people who agree with us. We only want to be welcoming to the people we already know. This is not the life Jesus called you to live. The Samaritan helped out the man who was robbed because the man who was robbed needed help. One person treated someone in need as a neighbor.
Go and do likewise.