While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 12:35-37.
For this long and terrible discourse we are indebted, with the exception of a few verses in Mark and Luke, to Matthew alone. But as it is only an extended repetition of denunciations uttered not long before at the table of a Pharisee, and recorded by Luke (Luke 11:37-54), we may take both together in the exposition.
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.