An Authority Like No Other

You can see here that Jesus' question is something like a riddle. The scribes called this a Haggada-question—one where you had to reconcile two seemingly contradictory points of view expressed in the scriptures. The Haggada question was basically this: If it is true that Christ (or the Messiah) is the Son of David, how can David call Him his Lord?Jesus wants them to think about this. Kings don't ordinarily call their sons "my lord" or "my master," yet that is what David does.