Matthew 22:34–46

The Greatest Commandment

³⁴When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, ³⁵and one of them, an expert in the law, asked him a question to test him.^{* 36}“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” ³⁷He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^{* 38}This is the greatest and first commandment. ³⁹And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’^{* 40}On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”^*

The Question about David’s Son

⁴¹Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: ⁴²“What do you think of the Messiah?^w Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”^{* 43}He said to them, “How is it then that David by the Spirit^x calls him Lord, saying,

⁴⁴‘The Lord said to my Lord,

“Sit at my right hand,

until I put your enemies under your feet” ’?^*

⁴⁵“If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?” ⁴⁶No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.^*