Matthew 22:34-46

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁴ But the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together:

³⁵ And one of them, a doctor of the law, asking him, tempting him:

³⁶ Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?

³⁷ Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.

³⁸ This is the greatest and the first commandment.

³⁹ And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

⁴⁰ On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

⁴¹ And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them,

⁴² Saying: What think you of Christ? whose son is he? They say to him: David's.

⁴³ He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying:

⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool?

⁴⁵ If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

⁴⁶ And no man was able to answer him a word; neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.