And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?

And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?

And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the scribes say, that Christ is the son of David?

But, while teaching in the Temple, Jesus asked, "How is it the Scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

And Jesus, when he was teaching in the Temple, said, How do the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?

Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, 'How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the son of David?

And while teaching in the temple, Jesus said in answer: "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

While Jesus was teaching in the Temple Courts, he asked, "How is it that the teachers of the Law say that the Christ is to be David's son?

See the notes at Matthew 22:41-46.

How say the scribes - See Matthew 22:41, etc.

(5) And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?
(5) Christ proves his Godhead even out of David himself, from whom he came according to the flesh.

And Jesus answered and said,.... To the Pharisees that were gathered together about him; See Gill on Matthew 22:41.
While he taught in the temple; Whilst he was in the temple, and as he was teaching the people there; among other things in his doctrine, he put this question,
how say the Scribes, that Christ is the son of David? Not that Christ meant to deny or invalidate the truth of this; for the Messiah was certainly to be the son of David, and was; but he wanted to know, inasmuch as they commonly said, and instructed the people to believe, and it was in general believed by them, that he was David's son, how they could reconcile this to his being the Lord of David: or how they could give out, that he was only and merely the Son of David, when he was David's Lord. Matthew relates the matter thus; that Christ first put these questions to them, what they thought of the Messiah, and whose son he was; and that they immediately replied, he was the son of David: wherefore this question seems to be put upon that, with another along with it,
how then doth David in spirit call him Lord? See Gill on Matthew 22:42, Matthew 22:43.

When we attend to what the Scriptures declare, as to the person and offices of Christ, we shall be led to confess him as our Lord and God; to obey him as our exalted Redeemer. If the common people hear these things gladly, while the learned and distinguished oppose, the former are happy, and the latter to be pitied. And as sin, disguised with a show of piety, is double iniquity, so its doom will be doubly heavy.

And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple--and "while the Pharisees were gathered together" (Matthew 22:41).
How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?--How come they to give it out that Messiah is to be the son of David? In Matthew (Matthew 22:42), Jesus asks them, "What think ye of Christ?" or of the promised and expected Messiah? "Whose son is He [to be]? They say unto Him, The son of David." The sense is the same. "He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call Him Lord?" (Matthew 22:42-43).

How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? See notes on Matthew 22:41-46. Mark adds to Matthew's account, The common people heard him gladly. Not the Pharisees, scribes, Sadducees or rulers, but the common people, of whom the Pharisees were wont to say, "This people who know not the law and are cursed" (John 7:49). We have many hints of the favor with which Christ was regarded by the people.

Matthew 22:41; Luke 20:41.