How can the teachers of the Law say. The Jewish leaders thought Jesus was only a man, nothing more. What he asks here is to make them aware of the true meaning of David's prophecy. See notes on Matthew 22:41-46. The large crowd heard Jesus gladly. It was not the common people who rejected Jesus. They loved him! [The Jewish leaders said about the common people: "This crowd does not know the Law of Moses, so they are under God's curse" (John 7:49).]

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