Mark 12:30-31

Context
12:30 Love¹ 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

Context
12:33 And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength⁴ and to love your neighbor as yourself⁵ 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.

[12:30] ¹tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).

[12:30] ²sn 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.

[12:31] ³sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.

[12:33] ⁴sn A quotation from Deut 6:5.

[12:33] ⁵sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.