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Mark 12:30-31. The quality in this story is to love God and to love your neighbour as you love yourself.

        Jesus is saying that the most important commandment is to love God with all your soul, with all your heart, with all your mind and with all your strength. He said that the second most important commandment is to love your neighbour as you love yourself. Jesus said that there were no other commandments more important than those two.

        I think Jesus looked for this quality because he would want everyone to love God, especially his disciples. If his disciples loved God then they would be more willing to help Jesus in his mission. They would encourage other people to love God as well. If they loved their neighbour as they loved themselves then it would teach them not to be selfish.

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        This quality would be useful for Jesus’ followers today because selfishness is always a bad quality and if Jesus’ followers could love their neighbours as themselves then it would set an example for other people to do the same.

        Mark 3:15. The quality in this story is to have authority. Jesus gave his disciples the authority to drive out demons.

        In this story Jesus asks some of his disciples to go up a hill with them. Out of those disciples he chose twelve to become his apostles. He said he had chosen them to be with him, to preach and ...

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