23rd Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 25
Matthew 22:34-46
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered
together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" 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.' This is the greatest and first
commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this
question: "What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?" They said
to him, "The son of David." He said to them, "How is it then that David
by the Spirit calls him Lord, saying,
'The Lord said to my Lord,
"Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet" '?
If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?" No one was able to
give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more
questions.
