Matthew 22:34-46
The Greatest Commandment
22:34 Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together.
22:35 And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:
22:36 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
22:37 Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
22:38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
22:39 The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
22:40 All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
The Messiah: David’s Son and Lord
22:41 While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them a question:
22:42 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said, “The son of David.”
22:43 He said to them, “How then does David by the Spirit call him ‘Lord,’ saying,
22:44 ‘The Lord said to my lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet”’?
22:45 If David then calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”
22:46 No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.