He answered, “‘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 ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
We have here Christ's discourse with a lawyer about some points of conscience, which we are all concerned to be rightly informed in and are so here from Christ though the questions were proposed with no good intention. I. We are concerned to know what that good is which we should do in this life, in order to our attaining eternal life.
Commenting on Luke 10:25-37
And he answering said, thou shalt love the Lord thy God,.... This was part of their phylacteries, which they recited every day; See Gill on Mat 22:37, Mat 22:39, Mar 12:28, Mar 12:29 Luke 10:28 luk 10:28 luk 10:28 luk 10:28And he said unto him, thou hast answered right,....
Verses 27-28. ; ; ; . Verse 27. (c) "Thou shalt love" (d) "thy neighbour as"