The Greatest Commandment

28 And one of the scribes came up and[a] heard them debating. When he[b] saw that he answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.’[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 12:28 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came up”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Mark 12:28 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
  3. Mark 12:30 A quotation from Deut 6:4–5; Josh 22:5