The law that God had truly given to Israel was, until the coming of Messiah, the most precious possession of human beings on earth. That law consisted of fundamental teachings such as the Ten Commandments, the “Hear, O Israel…” of Deuteronomy 6:4–5, the great passage on neighbor love in Leviticus 19:9–18, and the elaborations and applications of them by the Jewish prophets up to John the Baptizer.
