Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Matthew 22:36
Which [is] the great commandment? This was a question which, with
some others, divided the Jewish teachers into rival schools, and was a
constant bone of contention--one of "those strivings about the law",
against which Paul warns Titus (Titus 3:9). The Jews divided their
commandments into greater and lesser, but were not agreed in
particulars. Some pronounced the law of circumcision the greater;
others, that of sacrifices, or ablutions, or phylacteries. The Talmud
reckoned the positive laws of Moses at 248, the negative at 365, in all
613. To keep so many laws, said the Jews, is an angel's work. So they
had much question which was the great commandment, so that they might
keep it in lieu of keeping the whole.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 22:36
Mark 12:28-34
Luke 11:53-54
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