Whose Son Is the Messiah?^(A)(B)

³⁵ While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts,^(C) he asked, “Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David?^(D)

³² Let this Messiah,^(A) this king of Israel,^(B) come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.