Text: Jesus is actually quoting a commandment (law) found in Leviticus 19:18. He says in the scene from Matthew 22:34 that it is like the greatest commandment which is found written at Deuteronomy 6:5. In the KJV the story reads: 34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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