“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John appeared.

All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.

Then some of the experts in the law said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming!”

Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,

“The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them.

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

Now when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying down, sick with a fever.

Then an expert in the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

The disciples asked him, “Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law and elders – were mocking him:

I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place.

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law – justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

Then some of the experts in the law along with some Pharisees answered him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.