And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
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Gill's Exposition
And the second is like,.... "Unto it", as in Mat 22:39 and so it is read here in two ancient copies of Beza's, and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions;
namely this,…
See the notes at Mat 22:34-40. Mar 12:28 Perceiving that he answered them well - That is, with wisdom, and with a proper understanding of the law. In this case the opinion of the Saviour corresponded…
The scribes and Pharisees were (however bad otherwise) enemies to the Sadducees; now one would have expected that, when they heard Christ argue so well against the Sadducees, they would have…
Cambridge Bible
And Jesus answered him Pointing, it may be, to the Scribe's tephillah, תפלה, the little leather box containing in one of its four divisions the Shema(Deu 6:4), which every pious Israelite repeated…
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