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Matthew 22:45
So if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how can He be David’s son?”
from Whose Son Is the Christ?, Matthew 22:41-46
What it says

Jesus asks how David’s son can also be David’s Lord.

What it is doing

This verse states the tension in direct form.

In context

41While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus questioned them: 42“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He?” 43Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord’? For he says: 44‘The Lord said to my Lord, 45So if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how can He be David’s son?” 46No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.