20:41–44 Having silenced his critics, Jesus takes the initiative and asks his own question, one that raises an interesting question about the Christ. Jesus’ first question, How is it?… does not imply that he thinks that the Christ is not supposed to be a descendant of David, but it asks how he can be in light of Ps. 110:1, a psalm attributed to David and therefore cited by Jesus as potentially having messianic significance: “The Lord [God] said to my Lord [the Christ] …” That is, Jesus asks, “How can the Messiah [or Christ] be both David’s Son [as held in popular opinion and suggested in certain prophetic passages] and lord [as David himself states in Ps. 110:1]?” (Marshall, p. 745). Jesus’ question in v. 44 is based on the assumption that to be a descendant of someone is to be lesser. For…