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The Passion: The Greatest Commandment
Mark 12:28-34
The questions of the religious leaders had been an intense and humiliating experience – for them. At each turn they had been exposed by their own manipulative and unsound reasoning. Jesus had trapped them in their own traps. It is clear that they had underestimated Jesus to be an unlearned, inexperienced novice who was no match for their carefully constructed and most difficult legal land mines. Their greatest miscalculation was that they thought they were the smartest persons alive. At every encounter however, they quickly found their match. They soon discovered Jesus to be the greatest teacher of all.
Here now, a man who Matthew described as “an expert in the law” stepped forward to engage Jesus once again. It would be the last stand of the religious leaders against Jesus’ intellect. It would also prove to be a moment of reckoning as the bold young champion inched ever so near to the true Master: the One; the Way, the Truth and the Life. Would the words, “you are not far from the kingdom of God” grip the soul of this young man and the religious leaders who listened for the rest of their lives? Will it grip our souls today?
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