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Voice from Heaven: This is My Son, whom I love; this is the Apple of My eye; with Him I am well pleased.
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Now when He saw the crowds, He went up on a mountain (as Moses had done before Him) and He sat down (as Jewish teachers of His day usually did). His disciples gathered around Him.
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You have been taught to love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
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But I tell you this: love your enemies. Pray for those who torment you and persecute you—
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in so doing, you become children of your Father in heaven. He, after all, loves each of us—good and evil, kind and cruel. He causes the sun to rise and shine on evil and good alike. He causes the rain to water the fields of the righteous and the fields of the sinner.
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It is easy to love those who love you—even a tax collector can love those who love him.
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Likewise, when you pray, do not be as hypocrites who love to pray loudly at synagogue or on street corners—their concern is to be seen by men. They have already earned their reward.
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Even King Solomon, dressed in his most regal garb, was not as lovely as these lilies.
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If you love your father or mother more than you love Me, then you are not worthy of Me. If you love your son or daughter more than you love Me, then you are not worthy of Me.
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This is My servant, whom I have well chosen; this is the One I love, the One in whom I delight. I will place My Spirit upon Him; He will proclaim justice to all the world.
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honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.
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Jesus (to all three): You don’t understand what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I am going to drink? Can you be ritually washed in baptism just as I have been baptized? Zebedee Brothers: Of course!
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Jesus (quoting Scripture): “Love the Eternal One your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind.”
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And the second is nearly as important, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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and they love it when people recognize them in the marketplace, call them “Teacher,” and beam at them.
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And many who have followed Me and claimed to love Me and sought God’s kingdom will turn away—they will abandon the faith and betray and hate one another.
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The love that they had for one another will grow cold because few will obey the law. False prophets will appear, many will be taken in by them, and the only thing that will grow is wickedness. There will be no end to the increase of wickedness.
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Then Jesus, looking at the young man, saw that he was sincere and responded out of His love for him. Jesus: Son, there is still one thing you have not done. Go now. Sell everything you have and give the proceeds to the poor so that you will have treasure in heaven. After that, come, follow Me.
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They continued into Jerusalem and made their way up to the temple. Upon reaching the temple that morning, Jesus dealt with those who were selling and buying animals for sacrifices and drove them out of the area. He turned over the tables of those who exchanged money for the temple pilgrims and the seats of those selling birds,
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He had a son whom he loved above all things, and he said to himself, “When these thugs see my son, they’ll know he carries my authority. They’ll have to respect him.”
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You should love the Eternal, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.”
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The second great commandment is this: “Love others in the same way you love yourself.” There are no commandments more important than these.
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Scribe: Teacher, You have spoken the truth. For there is one God and only one God,
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and to love God with all our heart and soul and mind and strength and to love our neighbors as ourselves are more important than any burnt offering or sacrifice we could ever give.
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It was after this that Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to meet the chief priests with the intention of betraying Jesus to them.
