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David’s Son and David’s Lord

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41Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question: 42“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He?” They *said to Him, “The son of David.” 43He *said to them, “Then how does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying,

44‘The Lord said to my Lord,

“Sit at My right hand,

Until I put Your enemies under Your feet” ’?

45Therefore, if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?”

– Matthew 22:41-45
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The leaders of the people asked the Lord Jesus many rather subtle questions (payment of taxes, multiple marriages, size of legal commandments). Now that they no longer dare to question him, he asks them a question. And this question is about a central point: the glory of his own person.

He relates his question to a word of scripture, Psalm 110. This psalm was recognized by the Jews as messianic a long time ago. According to the Old Testament, there is also no question that the Messiah is the son of David(Jer 23:5 etc.). So if this psalm is about the son of David, how can King David refer to his own son as Lord ? Sons may have called fathers masters, but not the other way around!

The scribes could not find an answer to this. And to this day, this question has not been answered in Judaism.

You can only answer the question if you really know the person of the Lord Jesus. He is true God and man in one person. As a man (born in lowliness) he is the son of David, and as the Son of God (as well as the glorified Lord) He is David’s Lord. The Lord Jesus described himself as the root and lineage of David (Rev 22,16). He is the origin of the tribe of Jesse and also the offspring (Isa 11:1). Lord and Son!

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