Matthew 22:34–46

The Foremost Commandment

^34aBut when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced ^bthe Sadducees, they gathered themselves together.

³⁵And one of them, ^aa scholar of the Law, asked Him a question, testing Him,

³⁶“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”

³⁷And He said to him, “‘^aYou shall love the ¹Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

³⁸“This is the great and ¹foremost commandment.

³⁹“And the second is like it, ‘^aYou shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

⁴⁰“^aOn these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.”

^41aNow while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,

⁴²saying, “What do you think about ¹the Christ, whose son is He?” They ^*said to Him, “^aThe son of David.”

⁴³He ^*said to them, “Then how does David ^1ain the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying,

⁴⁴‘^aThe ¹Lord said to my Lord,

“Sit at My right hand,

Until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet” ’?

⁴⁵“Therefore, if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?”

^46aAnd no one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him ¹another question.