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41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 42 saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?”

They said to him, “Of David.”

43 He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
    sit on my right hand,
    until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet’?Psalm 110:1

45 “If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”

46 No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

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David’s Son and Lord

41 Now while[a] the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them, 42 saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “David’s.” 43 He said to them, “How then does David, by 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”’?[b]

45 If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how is he his son?” 46 And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask him any more questions.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:41 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“assembled”)
  2. Matthew 22:44 A quotation from Ps 110:1
  3. Matthew 22:46 *The word “questions” is not in the Greek text but is implied