Mark 12:33 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 12:33

and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

BSB

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ASV

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

KJV

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

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Commentary

1 voice

Bede

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (735)

(ubi sup.) He shows when he says, this is greater than all sacrifices, that a grave question was often debated between the scribes and Pharisees, which was the first commandment, or the greatest of the Divine law; that is, some praised offerings and sacrifices, others preferred acts of faith and love, because many of the fathers before the law pleased God by that faith only, which works by love. This scribe shows that he was of the latter opinion.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And thus must we subscribe to Christ's sayings, must set to our seal that they are true. Christ had quoted that great doctrine, that the Lord our God is one Lord; and this he not only assented to, but added, " There is none other but he; and therefore we must have no other God besides." This excludes all rivals with him, and secures the throne in the heart entire for him.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

These verses contain a conversation between our Lord Jesus Christ and "one of the Scribes." For the third time in one day we see our Lord tried by a hard question. Having put to silence the Pharisees and Sadducees, He is asked to decide a point on which much difference of opinion prevailed among the Jews — "Which is the first commandment of all?" We have reason to bless God that so many hard questions were propounded to our Lord. Without them the marvelous words of wisdom which His three answers contain, might never have been spoken at all.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

32 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
ἀγαπᾶν	agapan	to love	G25 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
ἐξ	ex	with	G1537 →
ὅλης	holēs	all	G3650 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
καρδίας	kardias	heart	G2588 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐξ	ex	with	G1537 →
ὅλης	holēs	all	G3650 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
συνέσεως	suneseōs	understanding	G4907 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐξ	ex	with	G1537 →
ὅλης	holēs	all	G3650 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
ἰσχύος	ischuos	strength	G2479 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
ἀγαπᾶν	agapan	to love	G25 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
πλησίον	plēsion	neighbour	G4139 →
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
ἑαυτὸν	he'auton	oneself	G1438 →
περισσότερόν	perissoteron	more excessive	G4054 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
πάντων	pantōn	than all	G3956 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
ὁλοκαυτωμάτων	holokautōmatōn	burnt offerings	G3646 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
θυσιῶν.	thusiōn	sacrifices.	G2378 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of…
leads to
- Hosea 6:6
  For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 9:13
  But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 21:3
  To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 51:16–17
  For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
- Amos 5:21–24
  “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
Through
Matthew 9:13
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
leads to
- Mark 2:17
  On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Matthew 12:7
  If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 19:10
  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”