Mark 12:37

Mark 12:37

Jesus: How Can David Call His Descendant Lord?

35 ^aThen 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?

36 For David himself said ^aby the Holy Spirit:
^b‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” ’

37 Therefore David himself calls Him ‘Lord’; how is He then his ^aSon?” And the common people heard Him gladly.

Beware of the Scribes

38 Then ^aHe said to them in His teaching, ^b“Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, ^clove greetings in the marketplaces,

39 the ^abest seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts,

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son?—There is but one solution of this difficulty. Messiah is at once inferior to David as his son according to the flesh, and superior to him as the Lord of a kingdom of which David is himself a subject, not the sovereign. The human and divine natures of Christ, and the spirituality of His kingdom—of which the highest earthly sovereigns are honored if they be counted worthy to be its subjects—furnish the only key to this puzzle.

And the common people—the immense crowd.

heard him gladly—"And no man was able to answer Him a word; neither durst any man from that day forth ask Him any more questions" (Matthew 22:46).

The Scribes Denounced (Mark 12:38-40).

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