We might suppose that he was speaking of the Ten Commandments and asking which of these is the most important. But that was not his purpose. He was thinking, not of the commandments given by God, but of the rules made by the scribes. One teacher would say that the rules about keeping the Sabbath were the greatest, another that the rules about washing were first; and so on, each scribe or teacher laying stress on one set of rules above another. Jesus looked upon all these little laws made by men as of no importance; and this was his answer to the scribe who had asked the question: "The first and greatest of all the commandments is this, 'Hear, O ye people of Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.' And the second commandment is this, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' There is no other commandment greater than these two." To love God with all the heart is to do God's will, not because we must do it, but because we love to do it and find joy in doing it. And to love our neighbor means to feel an interest in our fellow-men and to do for them whatever we would wish to have them do for us. "You are right, Teacher!" said the scribe in answer to Jesus. "It is true, as you say, that there is one God; and there is no other God besides him. And to love God with the whole heart, and with the whole mind, and with the whole strength; and to love one's fellow-man as one's self--this is far beyond all offerings upon the altar!" [Illustration: Ruins at the place where Jesus foretold the destruction of Jerusalem] Jesus saw that this man's words were true and good and that he had the right thought of our duty to God and to our fellow-man. He said to him: "You are not far from the kingdom of God." This was the last question put to Jesus. No one ventured to ask him any more, for they were afraid of his wonderful answers. The chief priests and the rulers were more and more angry at him, but the common people listened to him willingly. While Jesus was teaching he in his turn asked a question of the Pharisees and teachers of the law. "Tell me," he said, "what you think of the Messiah-Christ, the King of Israel, promised to come. Whose son is he?" They answered at once, "David's son." "How is it then," asked Jesus again, "that David in one of the psalms calls him 'Lord'? "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, Until I put your enemies under your feet.' "If David calls this coming Christ 'my Lord,' how can he be David's son?" This they could not answer, and they dared not ask Jesus any more questions. But we know, from the words of the New Testament, that while Christ as a man was sprung from David's line, as the Son of God he was David's Lord.