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Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly.
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David's Son, David's Lord
Commentators explain that Jesus's question was not just a clever riddle but a profound theological statement. By asking how the Messiah could be both David's son (human descendant) and David's Lord (a title for God), Jesus was revealing His dual nature. He is both fully human and fully divine, a truth the religious experts missed but is foundational to Christian belief.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The common people heard him gladly. The success of our Savior in his preaching was chiefly among the common or the poorer class of people.…
The common people heard him gladly (ο πολυς οχλος ηκουεν αυτου εδεως). Literally, the much multitude (the huge crowd) was listenin…
19th Century
Anglican
And the common people.—Better, the great body of the people. Stress is laid on the multitude, not on the social …
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Baptist
And the common people heard him gladly. And he said to them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love…
Rather than waiting for an answer, Jesus provided it himself with a quotation from Ps 110:1. Both the Davidic authorship of this psalm is assumed a…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
David therefore himself calleth him Lord David, whose son you say the Messiah is, speaks of him as one superior to h…
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