Nigeria, Oct. 25 -- A reading from the holy Gospel according Matthew 22:34-40

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question, 'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets also.'

1. In the Jewish society of Jesus' time, the question of knowing the greatest of the commandment was a necessary one because the scribes in their effort to interpret the ten commandme...