Matthew 22:40
Friday, 18 September 2026
On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:40
“In these, the two commandments, all the law and the prophets, they hang.” (CG)
In the previous verse, Jesus mentioned the second great commandment, loving one’s neighbor as oneself. Having said that, He next says words bearing emphasis, “In these, the two commandments.”
There are the two commandments, and there is everything else which is positionally fixed within the scope of these first two. That fixed position is that by which “all the law and the prophets, they hang.”
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