MARK 12:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?”
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, of all the commandments, which is the most important? — the scribe's question is asked not as a trap (unlike the Pharisees, Herodians, and Sadducees) but apparently as genuine inquiry stimulated by the quality of Jesus' previous answers. The greatest commandment question was a standard topic of rabbinic discussion — the attempt to find the principle that encompasses all the others.
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