yes i think so too. even though this lawyer knows what is good he doesn't do it. he doesn't believe God, that's why he's trying to test God, trying to justify himself, and looking to receive life through works. very similar to the rich young ruler.
to him Jesus repeats the saying of the law, that the one who does the things in it will live by them, and then Jesus gives a parable involving both a certain priest and a Levite acting wickedly while a goyim acts righteously. this is enormously significant -- and it is all in the context of how God has hidden the truth from the learned and revealed it to children; how no one has knowledge of the holy except those to whom He directly reveals it - having the law and the covenant of Sinai notwithstanding. this is just like the purpose of the method of speaking in parables itself ((Matthew 13:10-17)) - so of course He gives a parable. this teacher of the law who tests Him, Christ is not entrusting Himself to him; 'the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven' is not being given to this man, as it is to our Lord's disciples ((re: Matthew 13:11)). i think this is significant too.
i think it is, as i have said in here previously, that to whomever believes Christ, whose death and life are with Him and in Him, they are no longer under the law - set free, as children. we should never think not being under the law implies they are unrighteous or lawless. but to whoever does not believe Christ, the law is the only hope they have for life ((re: Romans 2)) but the law condemns them, one and all. 'Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God' -- and even more clearly now, because the law in which whoever denies Christ must pin their hopes, it commands things regarding the temple and the tabernacle, which no longer is. the modern orthodox Jew has no hope, because, denying the Son, he depends on sacrifices and ordinances which no more are.
in this way not one jot or tittle has passed away. the believer has died to them; the unbeliever is under a sentence of death by them.
but God says in the Torah that these commandments and statues be carried out in the place where He places His name. if we believe the Messiah, we are 'not under the law but grace' and we believe in a city wherein there is no more temple because the Lamb is its temple. the Son declares the Father: in Him His name dwells, but the one who relies on the law does not believe it; having the ear, but not the hearing
