IS JESUS MORE THAN THE MESSIAH?

Mark 12:35-37

³⁵ While Jesus was teaching in the temple, he said in response, “How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the son of David? ³⁶ David himself, by the Holy Spirit, declared, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”‘[1] ³⁷ David himself calls him Lord; how then can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with gladness.

yes, and

Jesus did not object to the title “son of David” itself. Bartimaeus had used it.[2] Jesus was asking the questions at the temple to get people to stretch beyond it in their thinking. The title was accurate, but it didn’t tell the whole story. It didn’t account for that pre-incarnate conversation between the eternal Logos and the Father, in which his sonship with the Father was revealed. Jesus was saying, “yes, I am the promised Messiah, and I am more. Do we dare believe that?

LORD, give us the wisdom to see you for all you are.

[1] Psalm 110:1.

[2] 10:48-49.