Jesus: How Can David Call His Descendant Lord?^(A)

^35 (B)Then Jesus answered and said, while He taught in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?

Jesus: How Can David Call His Descendant Lord?^(A)

⁴¹ And He said to them, ^(B)“How can they say that the Christ is the Son of David? ⁴² Now David himself said in the Book of Psalms:

⁴⁴ Therefore David calls Him ‘Lord’; ^(D)how is He then his Son?”

⁵⁵ In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to take Me? I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you did not seize Me.

²⁰ Jesus answered him, ^(A)“I spoke openly to the world. I always taught ^(B)in synagogues and ^(C)in the temple, where ^[a]the Jews always meet, and in secret I have said nothing.

^42 (A)Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, ^(B)where David was?”

^37 (A)And in the daytime He was teaching in the temple, but ^(B)at night He went out and stayed on the mountain called Olivet.

Jesus’ Authority Questioned^(A)

20 Now ^(B)it happened on one of those days, as He taught the people in the temple and preached the gospel, that the chief priests and the scribes, together with the elders, confronted Him

⁴⁷ And He ^(A)was teaching daily in the temple. But ^(B)the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy Him,

Jesus’ Authority Questioned^(A)

²⁷ Then they came again to Jerusalem. ^(B)And as He was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to Him.