“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, to test him.
And 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 every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.