Mat 22:34-40 | ESV | STEP | But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees , they gathered together .

‏ Matthew 22:34-40

The Great Commandment

34 ^aBut when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced ^bthe Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 ^cAnd one of them, ^da lawyer, asked him a question ^eto test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, ^f“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And ^ga second is like it: ^hYou shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 ⁱOn these two commandments depend ^jall the Law and the Prophets.”