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Mark 12:29

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

KJV

ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Ἰησοῦς ὅτι πρώτη ἐστίν· ἄκουε Ἰσραήλ, κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν κύριος εἷς ἐστιν,

Greek NT

Jesus autem respondit ei : Quia primum omnium mandatum est : Audi Israël, Dominus Deus tuus, Deus unus est :

Vulgate

Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one:

ASV

And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
πρῶτος
protos
adjective · 101×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
Ἰσραήλ
israel
noun · 68×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Deut 6:4 · exact_quote
    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:"
    Jesus quotes the Shema: the Lord our God is one Lord

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Ἰησοῦς | WH/NIV: ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Ἰησοῦς | Treg: + αὐτῷ | RP: Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ
  • ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Ἰησοῦς — SBLGNT
  • ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Ἰησοῦς — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + αὐτῷ — Tregelles
  • Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἐστίν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐστίν | RP: πάντων τῶν ἐντολῶν
  • ἐστίν — SBLGNT
  • ἐστίν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • πάντων τῶν ἐντολῶν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Doctrines that cite this verse

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§129Christians therefore read the Old Testament in the light of Christ crucified and risen. Such typological reading discloses the inexhaustible content of the Old Testament; but it must not make us forget that the Old Testament retains its own intrinsic value as Revelation reaffirmed by our Lord himself.105 Besides, the New Testament has to be read in the light of the Old. Early C…
§202Jesus himself affirms that God is "the one Lord" whom you must love "with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength".6 At the same time Jesus gives us to understand that he himself is "the Lord".7 To confess that Jesus is Lord is distinctive of Christian faith. This is not contrary to belief in the One God. Nor does believing in …
§575Many of Jesus' deeds and words constituted a "sign of contradiction",321 but more so for the religious authorities in Jerusalem, whom the Gospel according to John often calls simply "the Jews",322 than for the ordinary People of God.323 To be sure, Christ's relations with the Pharisees were not exclusively polemical. Some Pharisees warn him of the danger he was courting;324 Jes…
…and 1 more from this source.
First of all, believe that God is One, even He who created all things and set them in order, and brought all things from non-existence into being, who comprehendeth all things, being alone incomprehensible. Believe Him therefore, and fear Him, and in that fear be continent. Keep these things, and thou shalt cast away all wickedness from thyself.
6. And this is what is said, 'Who being in the form of God Philippians 2:6,' and 'the Father in Me.' Nor is this Form of the Godhead partial merely, but the fullness of the Father's Godhead is the Being of the Son, and the Son is whole God. Therefore also, being equal to God, He 'thought it not a prize to be equal to God;' and again since the Godhead and the Form of the Son is …
7. Now that this is the sense of the Prophet is clear and manifest to all; but since the irreligious men, alleging such passages also, dishonour the Lord and reproach us, saying, 'Behold God is said to be One and Only and First; how say ye that the Son is God? For if He were God, He had not said, I Alone, nor God is One ;' it is necessary to declare the sense of these phrases i…
Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith; which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the catholic faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 8:4 — 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.
  • 1Cor 8:4 — 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.
  • 1Cor 13:13 — And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
  • 1John 2:7 — Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
  • 1John 4:21 — And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
  • 1Tim 1:5 — Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
  • 1Tim 2:5 — For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
  • 1Tim 2:5 — For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
  • Deut 4:35 — Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
  • Deut 6:4 — Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
  • Deut 6:4 — Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
  • Deut 10:12 — And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy s
  • Deut 10:12 — And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy s
  • Deut 30:6 — And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
  • Gal 3:20 — Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
  • Jas 2:19 — Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
  • Jas 2:19 — Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
  • Jude 1:25 — To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
  • Luke 10:27 — 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.
  • Mark 12:32 — And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
  • Mark 12:32 — And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
  • Matt 7:12 — Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
  • Matt 10:37 — He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Matt 22:37 — Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
  • Matt 23:9 — And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
  • Neh 9:6 — Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest t
  • Prov 23:26 — My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
  • Ps 86:10 — For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
  • Rom 3:30 — Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.