49. The Greatest Commandment (12:28-40)

A scribe, probably sent by the Jewish religious leaders in a further attempt to discredit Jesus in front of the common people, found himself taken in by the incisiveness of Jesus' responses to other critics. In what became a quite sincere inquiry, he asked Jesus, "What is the greatest commandment?" This had long been a matter of debate among the religious scholars, but no one ever given an answer that was as simple as it was profound as Jesus did that day.