Mark 12:27-29
Contemporary English Version
27 He isn't the God of the dead, but of the living. You Sadducees are all wrong.
The Most Important Commandment
(Matthew 22.34-40; Luke 10.25-28)
28 (A) One of the teachers of the Law of Moses came up while Jesus and the Sadducees were arguing. When he heard Jesus give a good answer, he asked him, “What is the most important commandment?”
29 (B) Jesus answered, “The most important one says: ‘People of Israel, you have only one Lord and God.
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Mark 12:27-29
New International Version
27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”
The Greatest Commandment(A)
28 One of the teachers of the law(B) came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a]
Footnotes
- Mark 12:29 Or The Lord our God is one Lord
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