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What does Matthew 22:35 mean?

"One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him."

— Matthew 22:35 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

32

‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

33

When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

34

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.

35

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

36

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”

37

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

38

This is the first and great commandment.

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