{"id":9090,"date":"2024-12-22T09:28:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T15:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2024-12-22T09:28:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T15:28:37","slug":"mark-1228-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=9090","title":{"rendered":"Mark 12:28-34"},"content":{"rendered":"

28\u00a0<\/sup>Then one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, \u201cWhich is the first commandment of all?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

29\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus answered him, \u201cThe<\/span>\u00a0first of all the commandments is:<\/span> \u2018Hear, O Israel, the Lord<\/span> our God, the Lord<\/span> is one.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

30\u00a0<\/sup>And you shall<\/span> love the Lord<\/span> your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.\u2019<\/span>\u00a0This is the first commandment.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

31\u00a0<\/sup>And the second, like it, is this:<\/span> \u2018You shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019 There is no other commandment greater than<\/span> these.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

32\u00a0<\/sup>So the scribe said to Him, \u201cWell said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one God, and there is no other but He.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

33\u00a0<\/sup>And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one\u2019s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

34\u00a0<\/sup>Now when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, \u201cYou are not far from the kingdom of God.\u201d <\/span><\/span>But after that no one dared question Him.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Also found in Matthew 22:34-40<\/span><\/a>.<\/h3>\n

scribe (v.28) \u2014 a professional interpreter of the Law<\/p>\n

Which is the first commandment? (v.28) \u2014 The word “which is poia<\/em>, “of what sort.” It is a question, not of an individual commandment, but of characteristic quality. The questioner … probably had in view the distinction between ritual and ethical, or positive and moral. The prevalent tendency was to attach special importance to the positive, and to find the greater matters of the law in circumcision, Sabbath-keeping, the rules respecting phylacteries, etc. The opposite tendency, to emphasize the ethical<\/em> was not unrepresented, especially in the school of Hillel, which taught that the love of neighbor is the kernel of the law. The questioner leant to this side.\u00a0 The Lord is not asked to select one commandment out of the Ten, but to specify a class of commandments, or a particular commandment as representative of a class, to which priority belongs. \u2014 Wuest, page 237.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The quotation in verses 29 and 30 is from Deuteronomy 6:4-5. It was recited daily by every Jew, and written on the miniature roll which every scribe carried in his phylactery. This was a small case, made of parchment bound to the forehead or arm, in which was placed small pieces of parchment inscribed with scripture portions. … The mention of the heart, soul, mind, and strength speaks of the devotion of the whole being to God. The ancient Hebrews regarded the heart as the organ of the intellect, and the mind, that of the desires and affections. \u2014 Wuest, page 238.<\/span><\/h3>\n

love (v.30) \u2014 agape<\/em><\/h3>\n

the second commandment (v.31) \u2014 from Leviticus 19:18.<\/h3>\n

well said (v.32) \u2014 an exclamation of approval<\/h3>\n

There is a ring of conviction in the words [of the response of the questioner]. The varied expressions of the law of the love to God also bears witness to sincerity and independent thought. \u2014 Wuest, page 239.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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What the Lord observed in reference to the man was the intelligence displayed by his answer. it was shown not only in accepting the Lord’s judgment as to the two primary commandments, but in detecting and admitting the principle on which the judgment rested, namely, the superiority of moral over ritual obligation. Under the old theocracy those far off are either exiled Jews (Isaiah 57:19), or Gentiles (Ephesians 2:13<\/span><\/a>); distance from the new Kingdom is measured neither by miles, nor by ceremonial standards, but by spiritual conditions. The man was to some extent intellectually qualified for admission to the Kingdom; certainly he grasped one of its fundamental principles. It would be interesting to work out a comparison between this scribe and the ruler of Mark 10:17. In both cases something was wanting to convert admiration into discipleship. If wealth was the bar in the one case, pride of intellect may have been fatal in the other. \u2014 Wuest, page 239.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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His enemies had been defeated and put to shame, their murderous hate had been denounced, and the nets of their cunning had been rent like cobwebs; they had seen the heart of one of their own order kindled into open admiration, and they henceforth renounced as hopeless the attempt to conquer Jesus in debate. No man after that durst ask Him any questions. He will now carry the war into their own country. It will be for them to answer Jesus. \u2014 Chadwick, page 340.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

28\u00a0Then one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, \u201cWhich is the first commandment of all?\u201d 29\u00a0Jesus answered him, \u201cThe\u00a0first of all the commandments is: \u2018Hear, O Israel, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9091,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}