MATTHEW 22<\/p>\n
Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 \u201cTeacher, which is the great commandment in the law?\u201d37 Jesus said to him, \u201c\u2018You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.\u2019 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: \u2018You shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.\u201d41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 saying, \u201cWhat do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?\u201dThey said to Him, \u201cThe Son of David.\u201d43 He said to them, \u201cHow then does David in the Spirit call Him \u2018Lord,\u2019 saying:44 \u2018The Lord said to my Lord, \u201cSit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool\u201d\u2019? 45 If David then calls Him \u2018Lord,\u2019 how is He his Son?\u201d 46 And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.<\/p>\n
Since they thought He was a mere man, He overturns their belief and by means of the prophecy of David (Ps. 109:1) teaches the truth, that He is also the Lord, proclaiming His own divinity. For when the Pharisees said that the Christ was the son of David, that is, a mere man, He says, How then does David name Him Lord, and he does not simply name Him Lord, but \u201cin spirit,\u201d that is, as revealed to him by the grace of the Spirit? He does not say this to deny that He is the son of David, but to show that He is not a mere man, descended only from the Davidic seed. The Lord asks these questions so that if they would answer, \u201cWe do not know,\u201d they might ask and learn; or if they would answer the truth, that they might believe; or if they could not answer, that they might be put to shame and leave, no longer daring to interrogate Him.<\/p>\n
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