In today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches that the greatest commandments are love of God and love of neighbor. Illustrating this event in religious art is a challenge because, as I’ve noted before, when Jesus ...

Once again, the Pharisees want to trap Jesus. Matthew 22 is full of controversies. After opening with the parable of the wedding feast and the man without a wedding garment, there follow four separate ...

The Greatest Command In Matthew Chapter 22 a lawyer asks Jesus what the greatest commandment in the old covenant is. Jesus ...

Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here. When I started writing this study, I planned to avoid mentioning the election. Besides, my last pre-election ...

The three New Testament synoptic gospels similarly describe Jesus’ “Great Commandment” as loving God with “all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” ...

Why Jesus doesn’t give a straightforward answer to questions about the greatest commandment. A scribe came to Jesus and asked, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” (Mark 12:28). It ...

Strangers and enemies don’t come naturally. In a familiar passage from Mark’s gospel, Jesus gets asked what matters most. Embroiled in a cauldron of theological unrest over taxes and what happens ...