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Matthew 22:35

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and one of them, an expert in the law, asked him a question to test him.

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But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why are you putting me to the test, you hypocrites?

“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”

Some, testing him, asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

And Jesus asked the experts in the law and Pharisees, “Is it lawful to cure people on the Sabbath or not?”

But the Pharisees and the experts in the law, not having been baptized by him, rejected God’s purpose for themselves.)

They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

Make every effort to send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way, and see that they lack nothing.