Mark 12:18-37
I would suggest that it’s worth reading my comment in the second link below from 2019 on the scribe’s question about the most important commandment. I find that discussion between Jesus and the scribe to be really heartwarming – a genuine question from the scribe and a perfect reply from Jesus, then further discussion between them. It makes me want to meet that scribe!
And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions. (v. 34b) I looked ahead in The Chronological Study Bible and as far as I could tell this statement is true, that there are no more incidents where the Pharisees or Sadducees were asking Jesus questions in which they were trying to challenge Him.
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. (v. 30) I don’t know if I’ve said it to all of you before, but this quote from Jesus is my “conversion verse”. On May 17, 1975 late in the evening I was once again sitting with my friend, Jim and he was sharing with me again as he had for the previous 3.5 years. But somehow through all that he said this verse came to me and I was convicted that I was a sinner and that I needed God’s forgiveness. I knew that I was not even close on obeying that “greatest commandment”. I think of this almost every Sunday when we read this commandment at the beginning of our service following the “Prayer for Purity” when the deacon reads the “Summary of the Law”. Sweet…!
See also: September 16 / Mark 12:18-27; September 19 / Mark 12:28-37