“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions, they are regarded as a strange thing.
So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word of God.
and one of them, an expert in the law, asked him a question to test him.
He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds and neglect justice and the love of God; it is these you ought to have practiced, without neglecting the others.