Jesus continued, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says, The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” “If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” (Matt. 22:41–45; see Mark 12:35–37; Luke 20:41–44). Thus an apparently easy question suddenly became a profound and searching question. For if David called his natural physical descendant (the Messiah) his Lord, it could only be because the One