Queerying 21st after Pentecost A

Rev. Emily E. Ewing queeries the Gospel reading.

Gospel: Matthew 22:34-46

³⁴When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, ³⁵and one of them, a lawyer, asked Jesus a question to test him. ³⁶“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 

³⁷Jesus said to him, “’You shall love the Becoming One your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸This is the greatest and first commandment. ³⁹And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

⁴¹Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: ⁴²“What do you think of the Messiah? Whose child are they?” 

They said to Jesus, “The child of David.” 

⁴³Jesus said to them, “How is it then that David by the Spirit calls them Liege, saying, ⁴⁴‘The Becoming One said to my Liege, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet”’? ⁴⁵If David thus calls them Liege, how can they be his child?” 

⁴⁶No one was able to give Jesus an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.

Queeries for the text:
How did Jesus silence the Sadducees?
How is silence good? How does silence harm?
What is Jesus quoting?
What are all the law and the prophets?
Who could be the Messiah?
How many questions does Jesus get asked in Matthew's gospel?

What are your queeries?