"Love the Lord with all you... mind..." wherefrom?

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Hey guys,

It appears that when Jesus tells us to love God in the NT (Matt 22:37, Luk 10:27, Mark 12:29-30) he adds “and with all your mind” to the formula from Deut 6,5

Further, in Matthew “strenght” is omitted.

Why is that?
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Different eyewitnesses often get minor details different. Matthew may have remembered different than Peter (via Mark) or Luke.

OR they were trying to put different spin for a different congregation. Maybe strength was called for more for the Jewish converts (Matthew) than the Greek believers.

OR the words may have similar meanings in Aramaic (possibly the language Matthew was written in) or was translated to Greek without knowledge of Deuteronomy (what Jesus was quoting)

OR Jesus said it several times of 3 years and sometimes said it one way, sometimes another
 
Yeah, all very possible solutions.

It is still the first question that interests me the most, though…
 
Contrabass101 said:
Hey guys,

It appears that when Jesus tells us to love God in the NT (Matt 22:37, Luk 10:27, Mark 12:29-30) he adds “and with all your mind” to the formula from Deut 6,5

Further, in Matthew “strenght” is omitted.

Why is that?
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Likely depends on the actual contemporary meaning of words that are now translated in English as heart, soul, mind, strength etc.

Why is this a concern?
 
That’s not really an answer 🙂

I’m just curious, that’s all
 
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