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33 And when the multitudes heard this, athey were astonished at His teaching.  

The Scribes: Which Is the First Commandment of All?

34 aBut when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.  
35 Then one of them, aa lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,  
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37 Jesus said to him, a“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’  
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like it: a‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’  
40 aOn these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”  

Jesus: How Can David Call His Descendant Lord?

41 aWhile the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,  
42 saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” They said to Him, “The aSon of David.”  
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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Matthew 22:35.

Matthew 22:34-40

In Matthew 22:34-40, our Lord and Savior responded to a gain-saying Pharisee as to what constitutes the greatest law, to which He responded that we are to love the Lord with all our heart, with all our soul, and all our mind, constituting the first and greatest commandment in the entire Scriptures. The second greatest command was to love our neighbor as ourselves. Jesus assures all believers that upon those two reciprocal or symbiotic commandments hang all the law and the prophets. The apostle John in his first epistle warns us that it is impossible to perform one of these commands without doing the other.

Excerpted from Simplifying Life (Part Three): Managing Human and Spiritual Relationships



Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Matthew 22:35:

Matthew 22:37-38


 
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