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

^{35 Ref} One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

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

^{37 Ref} Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.

^{39 Ref} A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'