Give to everyone who asks of you, and do not demand your possessions back from the one who takes them. Luke 6:30
“Benefactors gave to those deemed worthy to receive a gift and who could reciprocate. Those who outgave the other gained status as the superior while the other moved down a rung on the status ladder. Gifts were always business deals used to cement friendships among social equals or to gain or assert power over social inferiors. The benefactor became the patron and the recipient the client who must reciprocate through service or public praise.
Jesus command about giving would have struck the listeners as bizarre. He makes no mention about the worthiness of the recipient and effectively erases the social distinctions between the giver and receiver. To Jesus, [his disciples are to give] without expecting any return from the one who receives…The early Christian community lived this ethic out (Acts 2:44-45; 4:32, 34-35), essentially becoming “fools for Christ” (1 Cor 4:10) from the perspective of the world’s value system [in contrast to the rich fool who kept everything for himself and was not “rich toward God” in Luke 12:13-21].”
David E. Garland in Luke: Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament ed. Clinton E. Arnold (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011) 280.