A
lawyer asked Jesus “which is the great commandment of the law?” The answer Jesus
gave the lawyer is found in Deuteronomy 6:5, but with one little change. Many
Christians have never heard Jesus’s answer. Continue reading at -
This
is what Jesus taught on how to love God.
This
is one of the most important teachings of Yeshua, the Jewish Jesus.
A lawyer decided to test by asking,
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Torah?”
Jesus said to the lawyer,
“‘You shall love Yahweh your God with all
your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
This is the first and great commandment.
And the
second is like it:
‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
On these two commandments hang all of the Torah
and the Prophets.”
(Matthew 22:35-40)
Why did a lawyer ask
Jesus a question about the law?
In
English translations you usually find something like this – A lawyer asked Jesus which is the great
commandment of the law. . . On these two commandments hang all of
the law and the prophets.
The words “the law and the prophets” make it clear that what Jesus actually
said was “The Torah and the Prophets.”
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