See Deuteronomy 6:5.

heart … soul … mind St Mark and St Luke add "strength." In Deut. the words are heart … soul … might. Heartincludes the emotions, will, purpose; soul, the spiritual faculties; mind, the intellect, the thinking faculty. This greatest commandment was written on the phylactery which the "lawyer" was probably wearing. See ch. Matthew 23:5.

St Mark (Mark 12:32) adds the lawyer's rejoinder and the commendation of Jesus, "thou art not far from the Kingdom of God."

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