You might be tempted to think this teaching comes from the New Testament. And it does. Jesus says it according to Matthew 22:39, Mark 12:29, and Luke 10:27 and both James (James 2:8) and Paul (Romans 13:9 and Galatians 5:14) refer to it as the foundation of the faith. But it was first stated in the Old Testament, in Leviticus.
When Jesus speaks this saying in Matthew and Mark, He is quoting from Leviticus 19:18 in answer to the…..
In my last post I highlighted how the Bible gives us two versions of the creation that taken together tell the story better than could be expressed in a single narrative. When we get to the story of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection the Bible will again offer us multiple tellings. The difference is that when Jesus rises from the dead, we will hear the same basic facts described now in quadruplicate.
The four gospel writers: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and…..