If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son?
If then David doth call him lord, how is he his son?'
If therefore David call him Lord, how is he his son?
Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Timothy 3:16By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world,…
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The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the…
After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
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John 8:58“Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
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God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
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Hebrews 2:14Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
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And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin.…
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(verses 41 onwards) But when the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus questioned them, saying, 'What do you think about the Christ, whose son is he?' They said to him, 'David.' He said to them, 'How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying, "The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?" If David then calls him Lord, how is he his son?' Those who had gathered together to test Jesus and tried to capture the truth through deceitful questioning, gave an opportunity for their own refutation.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420patristic
If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? Therefore he is both Lord and son, because he is son according to the flesh, since he drew his origin from him, and Lord according to his divinity.
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Matthew, 1274patristic
This question is still available for us against the Jews; for these who believe that Christ is yet to come, assert that He is a mere man, though a holy one, of the race of David. Let us then thus taught by the Lord ask them, If He be mere man, and only the Son of David, how does David call Him his Lord? To evade the truth of this question, the Jews invent many frivolous answers.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420patristic
If David then call him Lord,.... That is, the Messiah, which is taken for granted, nor could the Pharisees deny it, how is he his son?
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
How is he his son? - As the Jews did not attempt to deny the conclusion of our Lords question, which was, the Messiah is not only the son of David according to the flesh, but he is the Lord of David according to his Divine nature, then it is evident they could not.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
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regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,
“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”
“Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.
Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.
O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.
