Matthew 22:41 ¶ While the
Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is
he? They say unto him, The Son of David. 43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in
spirit call him Lord, saying, 44 The
LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies
thy footstool? 45 If David then call him
Lord, how is he his son? 46 And no man
was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth
ask him any more questions.
The Pharisees are tripped up when asked who Christ, the Anointed
One, the Messiah is. They call him the Son of David, a name of the Messiah who
is in the lineage of David. Jesus refers to a verse in Psalms,
Psalm 110:1 «A Psalm of
David.» The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make
thine enemies thy footstool.
They viewed the Messiah as a man coming in triumph to restore the
kingdom of Israel to its former glory but how could He be a mere man, the son
of David, when He was God in the flesh? How could David call his descendant,
his son, Lord? This is the mystery of being fully God and fully man which Jesus
was. They couldn’t answer His question and they stopped asking Him questions.
This exact question plagued the Eastern Roman Empire hundreds of years later
and was important in the establishment of the religion of Islam. The question
of the full divinity and full humanity of Christ, though answered at councils
drove a wedge between Christians in that part of the world and resulted in a
fierce religion of conquest, Islam, a subject not for this venue.
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