Last Sunday, the question for Jesus was, “Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”[1] Today, the story continues. Jesus and his disciples are still in the temple. The crowds include scribes, Pharisees, and Jesus’ disciples. The next question for Jesus is, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”[2] The law in question, of course, is the Torah, the Law of Moses. In it are 248 commandments and 365 prohibitions.[3]Of course, there have been discussions for thousands of years about understanding and the relative importance of 613 different commandments.
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