Mark 12:30-31

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.”

Mark 12:33-34

12:33 And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength ⁴  and to love your neighbor as yourself ⁵  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 6:5.

⁵ sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.