In yesterday's Gospel we saw Jesus telling a scribe what was the greatest commandment. In fact it consisted of two inseparable elements - love of God and love of neighbour. Soon after this encounter, Jesus is in the Temple. He asks a question: "How can the teachers of the law maintain that the Christ is the Son of David"? This, of course, was the strongly-held belief of the Jews, namely, that the coming Messiah would be a descendant of King David. They thus implied that the Messiah would be a special kind of messenger from God but would also be a human being just as David was. And, if they did see in Jesus the Messiah they expected, they saw in Him, too, a human being like themselves. Jesus challenges that idea by quoting striking words from Psalm 118 (and we must remember that David was understood to be the author of the Psalm). "The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand and I will put your enemies under my feet." If David calls his descendant 'Lord', how can he be understood as a 'son'? This is the same Jesus who on another occasion told the Jews, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Jesus does indeed share our human nature fully but He is something much more - the Son, not of David, but of His Father, He is the Word of God. Let us listen to Him.