Mark 12:36

Think about this. God's Holy Spirit told King David to write down these words in God's song book. ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Come here and sit down beside me until I make you boss over all your enemies.”’

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In The King James Version

For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

In Context

35Then Jesus kept on teaching the people in the Temple. He said, “Everybody knows that David was our king a long time ago. And we know that our Jewish law teachers say that a grandson for David will be the special man God promised to send from heaven. That man from heaven is going to save us, and we call him The Christ. So why do you think our law teachers say that The Christ, is a grandson for King David?

37David called The Christ, ‘My Lord’. And so, if David said that The Christ was his Lord, how can The Christ who came from heaven be David's grandson? Why do the law teachers say that?” The big crowd of people were really happy with what he said.

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Matthew Henry on Mark 12:36-41

Christ the Son and Lord of David. 35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David? 36 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. 37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly. 38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love… Read the whole commentary →

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