The Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 22:42

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What think ye of Christ? τοῦ χριστοῦ, the Christ, the Messiah. What is your belief? What do you, the teachers of the people and the careful interpreters of Scripture, opine concerning the Messiah? Whose Son is he?

This was a question the full bearing of which they did not comprehend, thinking that it referred only to his earthly descent. In their partial knowledge, perhaps half contemptuously, as to an inquiry familiar to all, they say unto him, The Son of David.

So all prophecy had said, as they very well knew (Matthew 1:1).

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