Thursday, February 27, 2020

This is what Jesus taught on how to love God.


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.”  Continue reading at -

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