Mark 12:25 Not understanding it

[mystic]

I can't make sense of this really:

As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said,
“How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David?
David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, said:

The Lord said to my lord,
‘Sit at my right hand
until I place your enemies under your feet.’

David himself calls him ‘lord’;
so how is he his son?”
The great crowd heard this with delight.

[alon]

Jun 4, 2021 4:14:02 GMT -8 mystic said:

I can't make sense of this really:

As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said,
“How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David?
David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, said:

The Lord said to my lord,
‘Sit at my right hand
until I place your enemies under your feet.’

David himself calls him ‘lord’;
so how is he his son?”
The great crowd heard this with delight.

You’re not the first to be stumped by this:

Matthew 22:41-45 (ESV)  Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” He said to them, “How is it then that David, in 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 then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.

It’s a quote from:

Psalm 110:1 (ESV)
The Lord says to my Lord:
    “Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.”

Acts gives a bit more detail:

Acts 2:29-36 (ESV) “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says,
“‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
  until I make your enemies your footstool.”’
 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

So the statement by David in the Psalms was a Messianic prophecy. The Lord (the Father) said to my Lord (Yeshua), who was both his descendant and his “Lord,” his Messiah. The statement recorded in Matthew, Acts, and elsewhere referred back to the one in Psalms.

[mystic]

Got it, makes sense now, thanks!