Matthew 22:40
On these two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
In Context
39And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
41While the Pharisees were together, Jesus asked them a question,
Cross References
Matthew 7:12All things, therefore, whatever you would that men should do to you, even so do you to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Romans 3:19Now we know that what the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God.
1 Timothy 1:5(Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and out of a good conscience, and out of faith unfeigned:
1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God: and every one that loves, has been begotten of God, and knows God.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 22:35-41
The Substance of the Commandments. 34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as… Read the whole commentary →