Luke 20:41-44·~1 min
Whose Son Is the Christ?
Jesus asks how the Christ can be David’s son when David speaks of him as Lord in the Psalms. The question presses David’s own testimony against a simple family line.
T41hen Jesus declared, “How can it be said that the Christ is the Son of David? 42For David himself says in the book of Psalms: 43until I make Your enemies 44Thus David calls Him ‘Lord.’ So how can He be David’s son?”
Section summaryJesus then asks how the Christ can be David’s son if David himself calls him Lord in the Psalms. The question lifts the Messiah above a merely inherited title and leaves the relation unresolved by the crowd’s usual categories.
Role in the chapterThis brief question turns Davidic descent into a deeper claim about the Messiah’s status before David’s own testimony and the Scriptures he cites from the Psalms.