Study it in the app“and to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love the neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.””
andκαὶto loveτὸ ἀγαπᾶνhimαὐτὸνwithἐξallὅληςthe heartτῆς καρδίαςandκαὶwithἐξallὅληςthe understandingτῆς συνέσεωςandκαὶwithἐξallὅληςthe strength,τῆς ἰσχύοςandκαὶto loveτὸ ἀγαπᾶνthe neighborτὸν πλησίονasὡςoneself,ἑαυτὸνisἐστινmore thanπερισσότερόνallπάντωνthe whole burnt offeringsτῶν ὁλοκαυτωμάτωνandκαὶsacrifices.”θυσιῶν
love
Love: to seek the good of the other, even of someone who does not deserve it.
Where else “agapan” appearswhole, all
Whole, entire, all.
Where else “holēs” appearsheart
Heart: the center of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides.
Where else “kardias” appearsunderstanding
Understanding, insight.
Where else “syneseōs” appearsstrength
Strength, might.
Where else “ischyos” appearsneighbor
The other person, whom you must love as yourself.
Where else “plēsion” appearsbe
To be: says who or what something is.
Where else “estin” appearsmore, greater
More, greater; all the more.
Where else “perissoteron” appearsburnt offering
Burnt offering: an offering burned whole.
Where else “holokautōmatōn” appearssacrifice
What was offered to God on the altar.
Where else “thysiōn” appearsIt recalls 1 Samuel 15:22 and Hosea 6:6.
Other books that tell the same thing or quote these words.
The greatest commandment
Luke 10 may be a different occasion.
Mark 12:28-34
28And one of the scribes came up, having heard them debating, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is first of all?” 29Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; 30and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32And the scribe said to him, “Well said, Teacher; in truth you have said that he is one and there is no other besides him; 33and to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love the neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34And Jesus, seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared any longer to question him.
34But the Pharisees, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered together in the same place. 35And one of them, a lawyer, asked a question, testing him: 36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37And he said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40On these two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets.”
25And look, a certain expert in the law stood up to test him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26And he said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” 27And he answered and said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” 28And he said to him, “You answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
32And the scribe said to him, “Well said, Teacher; in truth you have said that he is one and there is no other besides him;
33 · This verse (above)
34And Jesus, seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared any longer to question him.
1. What it says
What did Jesus answer about paying tribute to Caesar (vv. 15–17)?
2. What it means
Why did Jesus say the poor widow put in more than all the others (vv. 41–44)?
3. How I live it
Jesus said the first commandment is to love the Lord, and the second to love your neighbor (vv. 29–31). How will you make this concrete today?
