Matthew 22:35-40 - Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?"
Jesus said to him, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."[NKJV]
The two great commandments are to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself.
Yes, the great commandment to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is seen by many as summarizing the entire moral law, including the Ten Commandments. Jesus himself taught that all the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
The two structures were the Tabernacle, a portable tent used by the Israelites during their desert wanderings, and the Ark of the Covenant, a sacred container that housed the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
Moses wrote the Ten Commandments on two stone tablets on Mount Sinai.
Matthew 22:37-40 - Jesus said to him, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." [NKJV]The natural outcome of their keeping is compliance with all others. That's why Jesus said all the Law and the Prophets "hang" on these two.
In Matthew 22:34-40 Jesus condensed the Ten Commandments into two sets:1. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind"2. "Love your neighbor as yourself".The two kinds are 1) laws pertaining to reverence for God and 2) those pertaining to love and reverence and love for others. If you obeyed both of these commandments then you would obey all Ten Commandments.
The connection between them is simply love.
It is primarily found in the two great commandments given to us by Jesus. The first is to love God above all else. The second is to love your neighbor as yourself. The two great commandments are, essentially, a summation of the 10 commandments. The first 3 commandments correspond to the first great commandment and the last 7 commandments correspond to the 2nd great commandment. Please see the following biblical passages for the scriptural evidence of the 2 great commandments: Matthew 22:34-40 Luke 10:25-28 Mark 12:28-34
Two Great Commandments
Yes, the great commandment to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is seen by many as summarizing the entire moral law, including the Ten Commandments. Jesus himself taught that all the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
To love god
The Two Great Commandments are to love the Lord and to love thy Neighbor. For Mother Teresa to have helped all of those in the slums of Calcutta she would have had to love each and every one of them in their own way. As far as loving the Lord. That is only something Mother Teresa and God can answer.
At Matthew 22:37, Jesus said that the whole law hangs on these two greatest commandments: that we must love GOD with your whole heart, soul, and mind; and we must each love our neighbor as ourself.
The two great commandments are given by Our Blessed Lord in Matthew 22:37-40: And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets." The "new commandment" is given by Our Blessed Lord in John, Chapter 13, verses 34-35: I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
Matthew 22:36-40
The Ten Commandments are on two rocks that God had made for Moses
The position of the commandments as they are inscribed on the two Stone Tablets.
10 commandments