^{34 Ref} But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.

^{35 Ref} And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, trying him:

^{36 Ref} Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?

^{37 Ref} And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

³⁸ This is the great and first commandment.

^{39 Ref} And a second like `unto it' is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

^{40 Ref} On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.