29And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
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Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-34)The scribes and Pharisees were (however bad otherwise) enemies to the Sadducees; now one would have expected that, when they heard Christ argue so well against the Sadducees, they would have countenanced him, as they did Paul when he appeared against the Sadducees (Acts 23:9); but it had not the effect: because he did not fall in with them in the ceremonials of religion, he agreeing with them in t…
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