Love and the Messiah

Wisdom Under Pressure · Matthew 22

Story guide: Jesus joins wholehearted love for God with love for one’s neighbor, then turns the testing back on the leaders until the public traps fall silent.

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34But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.

35And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

36Teacher, which commandment is greatest in the Law?

37And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”

38This is the great and first commandment.

39And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

40On these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.

41While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

42saying, “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “David’s.”

43He said to them, “How then does David, in the Spirit, call him Lord, saying,”

44The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet’?”

45If, then, David calls him Lord, how is he his son?

46And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to question him any longer.

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