31. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
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. And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
34. But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.
35. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him,
36. Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37. And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38. This is the great and first commandment.
39. And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.