| Geneva Study Bible David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly. People's New Testament 12:37 The common people heard him gladly. Mark adds to Matthew's account (Mt 22:41-46). 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 (Joh 7:49). We have many hints of the favor with which Christ was regarded by the people. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 37. David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son?-There is but one solution of this difficulty. Messiah is at once inferior to David as his son according to the flesh, and superior to him as the Lord of a kingdom of which David is himself a subject, not the sovereign. The human and divine natures of Christ, and the spirituality of His kingdom-of which the highest earthly sovereigns are honored if they be counted worthy to be its subjects-furnish the only key to this puzzle. And the common people-the immense crowd. heard him gladly-"And no man was able to answer Him a word; neither durst any man from that day forth ask Him any more questions" (Mt 22:46). The Scribes Denounced (Mr 12:38-40). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 12:35-40 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. | 
