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Now, the Pharisees, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, were brought together with one accord;

and one from among them, a lawyer, proposed a question, putting him to the test:

Teacher! which commandment, is greatest in the law?

And, he, said unto him - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God - with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind:

This, is the great and first commandment.

The second, like it, is, this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

In these two commandments, all the law, is contained, and the prophets.