“like it” in magnitude and significance. The lawyer’s question was front-loaded with an assumption. In this case, a false assumption. Got kids? Which one is greatest? The question assumes something that’s probably (hopefully) not true. The question assumes one of your children is greater than the other or others. Who am I to make that assumption? Similarly, what gave this lawyer the right to assume one commandment was greater than all the others? Perhaps that was the trap. Whatever the case, Jesus
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