Focused Passage
The Wedding Banquet, the King’s Invitation, and the Messiah Who Is David’s Lord
Matthew moves from parabolic judgment against those who refuse the King’s Son, to warning against presumptuous attendance without proper response, to political testing over Caesar, to theological testing over resurrection, to legal testing over the greatest commandment, and finally to Jesus’ own question revealing that the Messiah is not merely David’s son but David’s Lord.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
41 While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus questioned them:
42 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He?” “David’s,” they answered.
43 Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord’? For he says:
44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’
45 So if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how can He be David’s son?”
46 No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.
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