Mark 12:30-34
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
12:31 The second is: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 3 There is no other commandment greater than these.”
12:32 The expert in the law said to him, “That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him. 4
12:33 And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength 5 and to love your neighbor as yourself 6 is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
12:34 When Jesus saw that he had answered thoughtfully, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” Then no one dared any longer to question him.
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 Lev 19:18.
4 sn A quotation from Deut 4:35.
5 sn A quotation from Deut 6:5.
6 sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.