Mark 12:29–31

12:29 Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 12:30 Love61 the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’62 12:31 The second is: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’63 There is no other commandment greater than these.”

61	tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).
62	sn A quotation from Deut 6:4–5 and Josh 22:5 (LXX). The fourfold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.
63	sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.