Popular Bible Verses from Mark 12

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Jesus replied, ‘This is the most important command: “Listen, Israel's people! The Lord alone is our God. There is no other Lord. Love the Lord your God completely. Love him with all your mind and with all your strength. Love him in everything that you think and you do.” The second most important command is this: “You should love other people as much as you love yourself.” No other commands are as important as these two.’

Jesus asked his disciples to come to him. He said to them, ‘I tell you this. This poor woman has put a better gift into the box than all the other people have put in there. All those rich people have plenty of money. They only put a small part of that into the box. But this woman has almost nothing. She put in all the money that she had. That was the money that she needed to live.’

Many people were giving their gifts for the temple. There was a box for money there. People threw their coins into it. Jesus sat near the box and he watched them. Many rich people put a lot of money into the box. But then a woman came there. She was a widow and she was very poor. She put two small coins that had only a little value into the box.

We must love him completely, with all our mind and with all our strength. We must also love other people as much as we love ourselves. This is more important than all the gifts or animals that we could offer to God.’

Jesus then said to them, ‘So you should give to Caesar the things that belong to Caesar. And give to God the things that belong to God.’ When they heard Jesus' answer, they were very surprised.