39. Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.”
40. For they no longer dared to ask him any question.
41. But he said to them, “How can they say that the Christ is David’s son?
42. For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
43. until I make your enemies your footstool.”’
44. David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son?”
45. And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,
46. “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,
47. who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”