Mark 12:33. With all the understanding. The scribe substitutes ‘understanding' for ‘mind,' which seems to express the same thought less abstractly. Mark preserves the answer in full.

Is much more than. Better, ‘more acceptable to God, and more useful to the worshipper.'

All whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. ‘Burnt offerings,' i.e., those commanded in the law. Such things took up the whole attention of legalists. It was a bold saying in those times and in that place. Christ's atoning sacrifice is the centre of the gospel, but he who has a correct theory on this subject, without being led to the love here spoken of, is but a Pharisee at heart, below the standard of this man.

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