Mark 12:37

whence is he then his son? Abraham had never called Isaac or Jacob or any of his descendants his lord. Why then had David done so? There could be but one answer: "Because that Son would be David's Son as regarded human birth, his Lord as regarded His Divine Nature." This answer, however, the Pharisees declined to make, not through ignorance, but through unbelief in our Lord's Messianic claims.

the common people Rather, the great multitude. "And moche cumpanygladli herde him." Wyclif. This fact is peculiar to St Mark, and implies that they listened to Him gladly, not merely in the general sense, but with special reference to His Divine dignity as the Messiah.