Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
Keywords
synoptic Gospels, New Testament, parables, greatest commandment
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Each of the three synoptic Gospels—Matthew, Mark, and Luke—recounts a question put to Jesus about the greatest commandment in the law. In Matthew, the questioner is a lawyer of impure motive, tempting the Master. [1] In Mark, it is a scribe asking the question, but one who sincerely seems to want to know. [2] In Luke, we are back to “a certain lawyer [who] stood up, and tempted him.” [3]
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Christofferson, D. T. "The First Commandment First." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 23, no. 3 (2022). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re/vol23/iss3/3
