³⁴The Pharisees heard that the Sadducees weren’t able to answer Jesus. So the Pharisees got together. ³⁵One of them was an authority on the law. So he tested Jesus with a question. ³⁶“Teacher,” he asked, “which is the most important commandment in the Law?”

³⁷Jesus replied, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Love him with all your mind.’ ³⁸This is the first and most important commandment. ³⁹And the second is like it. ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ ⁴⁰Everything that is written in the Law and the Prophets is based on these two commandments.”

Whose Son Is the Christ?

⁴¹The Pharisees were gathered together. Jesus asked them, ⁴²“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?”

“The son of David,” they replied.

⁴³He said to them, “Then why does David call him ‘Lord’? The Holy Spirit spoke through David himself. David said,

⁴⁴“ ‘The Lord said to my Lord,

“Sit at my right hand

until I put your enemies

under your control.” ’

⁴⁵So if David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be David’s son?”

⁴⁶No one could answer him with a single word. From that day on, no one dared to ask him any more questions.

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Matthew 22:37–38: And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.