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Luke 20:41-47 If you don’t have a Bible nearby, you can read it here: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2020%3A41-47&version=NLT

At the end of the previous passage Luke tells us that everyone was afraid to ask Jesus any more questions.  That’s fair, it never ended well for them.  But Jesus isn’t done stirring the pot, so he asks a question of his own.  The passage he quotes here is from Psalm 110 which was written by King David. The traditional understanding of the Psalm includes two applications.  The first is that David was writing a psalm in celebration of his son Solomon ascending to his own throne.  David appointed Solomon during his lifetime so there is a real sense in which King David could call his own son ‘my Lord’.  But the religious teachers of Jesus’ day were in agreement that this Psalm was also prophetic.  It looked forward to the coming Messiah who would rescue Israel.  Jesus points out a bit of a problem inherent in that understanding of the psalm.  King David (top of the food chain at that time) calls someone ‘my Lord’. That implies that he was talking about someone higher than the top of the food chain. David’s only Lord was God.  Several prophetic passages clearly indicate that the Messiah would be a descendant of David. So Jesus asks, “In the prophetic context, how could David’s Lord  also be a son of David ?”  Jesus wants them to challenge their assumptions. Is it possible that a son of David might be the son of God? 

Just in case that didn’t make the religious leaders sufficiently uncomfortable, Jesus warns the people directly that their teachers are self-serving, self-important and in danger of severe punishment.  Jesus is long past trying to win friends and influence people.  He is provoking his opponents to bring them to the place where they are ready to do whatever it takes to get rid of him regardless of who is watching.