34Now when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced ([J]muzzled) the Sadducees, they gathered together.
35And one of their number, a lawyer, asked Him a question to test Him.
36Teacher, which [K]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). oDeut. 6:5.
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. pLev. 19:18.
40These two commandments [L]sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets.
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