“and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Mark 12:33 (WEB)
Context Reading
31The second is like this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he; 33and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him,“You are not far from God’s Kingdom.”No one dared ask him any question after that. 35Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple,“How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?