Hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees came together in a body, and one of them tried to catch him out with this question: ´Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?´ He answered, ´"Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." That is the greatest, the first commandment. The second is like it: "Love your neighbour as yourself." Everything in the law and the prophets hangs on these two commandments.´

Source: The Revised English Bible, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, 1997, Matthew, 22, 34-40. The Revised English Bible was planned and directed by representatives of THE BAPTIST UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, THE COUNCIL OF CHURCHES FOR WALES, THE IRISH COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, THE LONDON YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, THE METHODIST CHURCH OF GREAT BRITAIN, THE MORAVIAN CHURCH IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN IRELAND, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN SCOTLAND, THE SALVATION ARMY, THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, THE BIBLE SOCIETY, THE NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.