Mark 12:29-30
12:29 Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
12:30 Love 1 the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ 2
Mark 12:33
12:33 And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength 3 and to love your neighbor as yourself 4 is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
1 tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).
2 sn A quotation from Deut 6:4-5 and Josh 22:5 (LXX). The fourfold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.
3 sn A quotation from Deut 6:5.
4 sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.