Markus 12:29-30

12:29 Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 12:30 Love ¹  the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ ² 

Markus 12:33

12:33 And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength ³  and to love your neighbor as yourself ⁴  is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

[12:30]  ¹ tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).

[12:30]  ² sn A quotation from Deut 6:4-5 and Josh 22:5 (LXX). The fourfold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.

[12:33]  ³ sn A quotation from Deut 6:5.

[12:33]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.