The Importance of Jesus' Response to the Lawyer's Questions

The implications of the lawyer's questions and Jesus' response are so loaded with implications that our tendency when we read this piece of narrative is to jump to the answer. The Pharisee comes to Jesus and says, teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? And Jesus doesn't question the question. He actually affirms the significance and the importance of the question. We're about to be reminded in case we have forgotten.