Matthew 22:34-40

The Greatest Commandment

34 Now [when] the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled at the same [place].
35 And one of them, a legal expert, put a question to [him] to test him:
36 "Teacher, which commandment [is] greatest in the law?"
37 And he said to him, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
38 This is the greatest and first commandment.
39 And the second [is] like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
40 On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets."

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Footnotes 5

  • [a]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal
  • [b]. Or "they assembled together"
  • [c]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  • [d]. A quotation from Deut 6:5
  • [e]. A quotation from Lev 19:18
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