The LORD Said to My Lord
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Mark 12:35-37
Mark 12:35-37
35 And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 36 David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared,
“ ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet.” ’
37 David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly.
Short but powerful passage
Parallels in Matt 22 and Luke 20
The nature of the Messiah
Jesus’s view of scripture
Jesus is in the temple teaching
He has been grilled by the Sanhedrin and has silenced them all - now he turns the tables and asks them a question.
Jesus shows us that it is ok to sometimes go on the offensive. We often spend so much time answering the questions of skeptics but sometimes we need to ask them a question or two.
“For those who believe, no explanation is necessary, for those who do not believe no explanation is sufficient.”
Presupp
Jesus reasons from scripture - we should not be ashamed to do the same.
Christ = Messiah
The Jews believed that the Messiah would be the son of David (or a descendent of David)
5 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
Bartimaeus had cried out ‘Son of David have mercy on me’ on Jesus’s way through Jericho.
According to Matthew the crowd cried out ‘Hosanna to the Son of David’ as Jesus entered Jerusalem. The crowd believed that Jesus was this promised son of David.
Detailed records of lineage existed at the temple - so the scribes and pharisees would no doubt have searched these to see whether Jesus truly did descend from David - as matthew and Luke in their gospels show that he did on both sides.
Jesus seems to take issue with them believing that the Christ would be the son of David. But this wasn’t the case - He took issue with their belief that the Christ would merely be the son of David.
He quotes Psalm 110
A Psalm of David.
1 The Lord says to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.”
2 The Lord sends forth from Zion
your mighty scepter.
Rule in the midst of your enemies!
3 Your people will offer themselves freely
on the day of your power,
in holy garments;
from the womb of the morning,
the dew of your youth will be yours.
4 The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind,
“You are a priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek.”
5 The Lord is at your right hand;
he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
6 He will execute judgment among the nations,
filling them with corpses;
he will shatter chiefs
over the wide earth.
7 He will drink from the brook by the way;
therefore he will lift up his head.
This is the most quoted OT passage in the NT - quoted 33 times. The early church believed it was prophetic - that it spoke about the messiah. So did the Jews pretty much universally, it is mentioned by scribes and Rabbis frequently up until Jesus came along and then silence for a few hundred years! Then they began to say it spoke of David himself or of Judas Maccabeus.
Some scholars today even say that David actually didn’t write this Psalm. But if Jesus says David wrote it, then David wrote it. If Jesus says it’s about Him, then it’s about Him.
There are lot’s of things in the Bible that people doubt today and are sceptical about. It’s true - there are some pretty wild, fantastical things in this book, but if Jesus believes it then so will I.
He believed the biblical account of creation (Matt 19 - Mark 10)
He believed the biblical account of the flood (Matt 24 , Luke 17)
He and the apostles believed in a real Adam and Eve - so will I.
Moreover - Jesus says in verse 36 that David wrote this Psalm in the Holy Spirit. Jesus believed in the divine inspiration of scripture - so will I. So many today, sadly even theologians and pastors treat the Bible as just any other historical document, written by fallible men who speak from a time and a culture now long passed. But this is not Jesus’s view of scripture and therefore it should not be ours either
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia Chapter 110
נְאֻ֤ם יְהוָ֨ה׀ לַֽאדֹנִ֗י
Yahweh announced to Adoni. Yahweh is God’s name - Adoni in the OT appears mostly as a name for God, but it is also commonly used to refer to kings or rulers.
So Yahweh is talking to someone who He is going to seat at His right hand, someone named Lord, who has a holy people, who is a priest after the order of Melchizedek, who will judge the nations on the day of his wrath. This doesn’t sound like some ordinary earthly ruler.
And so the Messiah will be David’s son but also David’s Lord.
5 And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
He will be David’s branch but also his root.
He is also Mary’s son according to His human nature but her Lord according to his divine nature.
New Testament II: Mark (Revised) Son of David and Lord of David
He was the Lord of Mary, he was the son of Mary; he was the creator of Mary, he was created from Mary. Do not be amazed that he is both son and Lord.
AUGUSTINE
truly God and truly man, of a rational soul and body; coessential with the Father according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the manhood; - Chalcedonian Creed
The scribes view of the Messiah was too earth bound - too human. This is still the case - people do want a saviour, they want a messiah of sorts. They want some great leader or politician, a great scientist or philosopher to lead the human race but they don’t want God. This is why they hated Jesus!
Jesus divides opinion - there’s no neutrality. You’ll either fall at his feet and worship Him or gnash your teeth and crucify Him.
The crowds received His teaching gladly, they enjoyed it. We can imagine that the Sanhedrin did not. The Gospel - the message about Jesus is good news to the humble, to the poor in spirit, but it is foolishness to the proud and self satisfied.
But Yahweh has seated Christ at His right hand, He is making all the earth a footstool for Him. Here were catching a rare glimpse of a conversation happening within the Godhead. The highest council in the universe over every earthly kingdom and government. It’s this council that truly decides the affairs of the cosmos.
11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
35 all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
and he does according to his will among the host of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth;
and none can stay his hand
or say to him, “What have you done?”
His will is to place everything in subjection to Christ - so though the nations rage we need not fear. It’s all part of His sovereign plan.
1 Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.