The Source of the Saying of Jesus that the Christ is not the Son of David

Section V

The Texts of the Old Testament, which were quoted during the Debates and the Arguments and the Dialogues in the Gospels

In this section we will examine some texts in the Gospels that contain debates and dialogues and arguments, in which the Gospels authors have cited texts from the Old Testament; to find out if these texts consistent with the Gospels and not contradicting with them, or with the principles and the concepts and the texts of the Old Testament, and if the Gospels authors did not distort and manipulate them to serve what they believe, as we have seen in the previous sections how they have used the texts of the Old Testament to write their narratives to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on what they have written, away from the revelation and the Holy Spirit, or even the historical events; for this they have distorted and manipulated the texts of the Old Testament, whether by changing the meaning of them, or by adding some paragraphs, or by deleting others, or by writing some paragraphs that were not written in the Old Testament, or by writing some names and numbers that are inconsistent with what is written in the Old Testament, etc.

1 - The Source of the Saying of Jesus that the Christ is not the Son of David

Matthew 22:41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

Matthew 22:42 saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?" They said to Him, "The Son of David."

Matthew 22:43 He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord’, saying:

Matthew 22:44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool"‘?

Matthew 22:45 "If David then calls Him ‘Lord’, how is He his Son?"

Matthew 22:46 And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.

Mark 12:35 Then Jesus answered and said, while He taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?

Mark 12:36 "For David himself said by the Holy Spirit: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool’.

Mark 12:37 "Therefore David himself calls Him ‘Lord’; how is He then his Son?" And the common people heard Him gladly.

Luke 20:41 And He said to them, "How can they say that the Christ is the Son of David?

Luke 20:42 "Now David himself said in the Book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand,

Luke 20:43 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool."‘

Luke 20:44 "Therefore David calls Him ‘Lord’; how is He then his Son?"

These texts represent a good and a clear model to the way of writing the Gospels, and the sources which have been relied upon.

The Gospels authors, during their desperate attempts to prove polytheism and multiplicity of gods in the Old Testament, have resorted to quoting any text that may indicate to talk about the multiplicity of gods and put it in the context of narrative in their Gospels, regardless of the true meaning of the texts of the Old Testament, for they do not care about the Old Testament principles, but they care about what believe in only, as is shown in the first chapter. Yet in these texts have exceeded everything, not only because they have omitted the Old Testament texts that have confirmed the Oneness of the LORD, but they contradict what they have written in their Gospels, because on one hand, when they have tried in these texts to prove that Jesus is the Christ, which means that he is not the son of David, on the other hand, they have written dozens of texts in the Gospels that say that Jesus is the son of David, even they have written two genealogies to him, which have nothing to do with him, because they were genealogies of Joseph the Carpenter, who was not his father! As in the following texts:

Matthew 1:1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:

Matthew 9:27 When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, "Son of David, have mercy on us!"

Matthew 20:30 And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, "Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!"

Luke 3:23 Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,

So, if these texts are true, and indicate that Jesus is the Christ, it means that Jesus is not the son of David as is written in the other texts, but if what they had written about Jesus that he is the son of David is the true, this means that Jesus is not the Christ, because the Christ is the Lord of David, not his son and these quotations are not true.

Although, the clarity of this contradiction between the texts of the Gospels by quoting from the Psalm, we must read the Psalm which contains the paragraph that has been quoted; to figure out if it was talking about Jesus or not, which is in the Psalm 110, which is as follows:

Psalm 110:1 (A Psalm of David.) The LORD said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool."

Psalm 110:2 The LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies!

Psalm 110:3 Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth.

Psalm 110:4 The LORD has sworn And will not relent, "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek."

Psalm 110:5 The Lord is at Your right hand; He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.

Psalm 110:6 He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill the places with dead bodies, He shall execute the heads of many countries.

Psalm 110:7 He shall drink of the brook by the wayside; Therefore He shall lift up the head.

The Gospels authors have quoted the first paragraph, which does not contain any reference about Christ or anything else, except that it talks about the multiplicity of gods, and this is rejected by the Old Testament, and considered it as the greatest of sins, and this implies that this paragraph has another meaning, not what did the Gospels authors understand of it; and wrote it on the lips of Jesus, for this Hebrew Version has used the small letter for the second lord, as in the following text:

Psalm 110:1 A Psalm of David. {N}

The LORD saith unto my lord: 'Sit thou at My right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.'

And what makes this more obvious is the following paragraphs which they start talking about who was called lord by the Lord the Creator, and how that the LORD shall send the rod of his strength out of Zion and rule in the midst of his enemies, and his people shall be volunteers in the day of his power; in the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, he has the dew of his youth and he shall judge among the nations.

And all these paragraphs, although they do not talk about lord who equal to the LORD the Creator of the heavens and the earth, they also do not apply to Jesus, because the Gospels did not tell us that Jesus has rule in the midst of his enemies, and the Jews were volunteers in the day of his power, because he didn't fight any enemy throughout his life, even that he refused to be king when some Jews tried to make him king, and he refused to divide the inheritance between two brothers, and refused to condemn the woman who was caught in adultery! As in the following texts:

John 6:15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone.

Luke 12:13 Then one from the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

Luke 12:14 But He said to him, "Man, who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"

John 8:3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,

John 8:4 they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act.

John 8:5 "Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?" 

John 8:6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.

John 8:7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first."

John 8:8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.

John 8:9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

John 8:10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?"

John 8:11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."

Then we read that the LORD the Creator will make the lord who mentioned in the first paragraph as a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek, and this confirms that the meaning of the word lord does not mean a true God or it is equal to the LORD the Creator, because the One who makes priests is without a doubt greater than them, and they are not equal with Him, and I have talked about Melchizedek previously so no need to talk about him again.

Then the Psalm talks about the war that will take place between the lord who is a priest according to the order of Melchizedek and his enemies, and the LORD the Creator will be with him as He was with the children of Israel during some wars, and this did not happen throughout Jesus' life as is written in the Gospels!

So where did we see Jesus or even the Christ in this Psalm?

From all this, we conclude that the Gospels authors have used the texts of the Old Testament in an attempt to prove what they believe in the multiplicity of gods, regardless of what they have written in other texts that contradict with it, and the true meaning of the Old Testament texts, and if they apply to Jesus or not, as is their method of writing the Gospels, which indicates that the law "do not accept the lying and false" applies to these texts.