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The Two Most Important Questions A Christian Can Answer
Isidor Isaac Rabi, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, and one of the developers of the atomic bomb, was once asked how he became a scientist. Rabi replied that every day…
• Brett Blair
Matthew 22:34-46
The Silencing
It’s hard to argue with a checkmate. In fact, you can’t. The game of chess is designed so that no matter how many strategic and clever moves you make during the course…
• Lori Wagner
No Improvement Possible
Sometimes Christians do not live out what the Master taught them. Some tragic occurrences have happened in history in the name of Christ. This morning's message is not a…
• King Duncan
Matthew 22:34-46
The Heart of Faith
“What is the greatest commandment?” This is like the question from a bit earlier in the gospel about paying taxes that seems like an honest question. After all shouldn’t…
• Peter Andrew Smith

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The Greatest Commandment

34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"

37 Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

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The final test comes from the Pharisees and scribes as one of them asks Jesus about the greatest commandment, a matte…

The Baker Bible Handbook by , Baker Publishing Group, 2016

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The final question asked of Jesus again comes from the Pharisees, who send one of their torah experts to ask Jesus about the greatest commandment (22:34–36). Matthew has already emphasized Jesus’s torah interpretation through the lens of love and mercy…

The Baker Illustrated Bible Commentary by Gary M. Burge, Baker Publishing Group, 2016

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