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Matthew 22:36-40
New English Translation
Matthew 22:36-40
New English Translation
36 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”[a] 37 Jesus[b] said to him, “‘Love[c] the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[d] 38 This is the first and greatest[e] commandment. 39 The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[f] 40 All the law and the prophets depend[g] on these two commandments.”
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- Matthew 22:36 tn Or possibly “What sort of commandment in the law is great?”
- Matthew 22:37 tn Grk “And he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
- Matthew 22:37 tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).
- Matthew 22:37 sn A quotation from Deut 6:5. The threefold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.
- Matthew 22:38 tn Grk “the great and first.”
- Matthew 22:39 sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.
- Matthew 22:40 tn Grk “hang.” The verb κρεμάννυμι (kremannumi) is used here with a figurative meaning (cf. BDAG 566 s.v. 2.b).
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