34Now when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced ([J]Literal translation.muzzled) the Sadducees, they gathered together.35And one of their number, a lawyer, asked Him a question to test Him.36Teacher, which [K]Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.kind of commandment is great and important (the principal kind) in the Law? [Some commandments are light--which are heavy?]37And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). 38This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment.39And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.40These two commandments [L]Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets.