Whose Son Is the Christ?

(Mark 12:35–37; Luke 20:41–44)

41 While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus questioned them: 42 “What {do} you think about the Christ? Whose son is He?”

“David’s,” they answered.

43 [Jesus] said to them, “How then {does} David in [the] Spirit call Him ‘Lord’? [For] he says:

44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,

“Sit at My right hand

until I make Your enemies

a footstool for Your feet.” ’[fn]

45 So if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how can He be [David’s] son?”

46 No one was able to answer a word, [and] from that day [on] [no one] dared to question Him [any] further.