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39 (A)The second is like it:[a] You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 [b](B)The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

The Question About David’s Son.[c] 41 (C)While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus questioned them,[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 22:39 Jesus goes beyond the extent of the question put to him and joins to the greatest and the first commandment a second, that of love of neighbor, Lv 19:18; see note on Mt 19:18–19. This combination of the two commandments may already have been made in Judaism.
  2. 22:40 The double commandment is the source from which the whole law and the prophets are derived.
  3. 22:41–46 Having answered the questions of his opponents in the preceding three controversies, Jesus now puts a question to them about the sonship of the Messiah. Their easy response (Mt 22:43a) is countered by his quoting a verse of Ps 110 that raises a problem for their response (43b–45). They are unable to solve it and from that day on their questioning of him is ended.
  4. 22:41 The Pharisees…questioned them: Mark is not specific about who are questioned (Mk 12:35).