37. And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). [Deut. 6:5.]
38. This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment.
39. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself. [Lev. 19:18.]
40. These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets.
41. Now while the Pharisees were still assembled there, Jesus asked them a question,
42. Saying, What do you think of the Christ? Whose Son is He? They said to Him, The Son of David.
43. He said to them, How is it then that David, under the influence of the [Holy] Spirit, calls Him Lord, saying,