‘And all the crowds who came together to this sight, when they beheld the things that were done, returned smiting their breasts.'

The things that had happened moved the crowds. They had long sought signs from Jesus, and they had had signs today. And as they went away they beat their breasts as they thought of what had happened. They were moved and stirred. But we are given no cause to think that it went further. They had ‘beheld these things', but by the morning it would all be just a memory.

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