Just Asking (8): are we to do it to Jesus?

Some days ago someone asked about the parable of goats and sheep in Mt 25.
His intended discussion was about works vs faith.

That’s understood.
I have no intention to downplay that.

Rather just want to ask.
Did Jesus speak the parable so his followers would treat people with Jesus as their intended target?
Or at least behind it all?
Just in case one turns out to be?

I really wonder.

Years ago I saw this sentence from Mt 25 on the wall of a medical school:
I was sick and you took care of me (25:36 NET).

I was proud of my daughter choosing her profession, and even more so, choosing that particular medical school.
Surely I was hoping she would thereon deal with each and every one of her patients as if they were Jesus.

In the parable those on the right were surprised, surprised that they had cared for Jesus.
They treated a sick person.
They had not set out to treat Jesus.
They just treated a sick person.
For that mere act, sans the intention or motive, they were admitted at judgement.
That was the surprise.
Jesus rewarded it, just as it was, surprise and all!

It seems that to turn the key in Jesus praise and surprise into a scheme to train oneself into some sort of psychological conditioning in treating strangers with mercy and love, as if they were or could be Jesus, goes directly counter to the thrust of the parable.

Returning to the discussion of works vs faith that gets you over at judgement.
It seems that true works are done when you least care about motive or reward.

Isn’t it that’s appreciated by the Lord?

I’m just asking.