Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Matthew 7:28

ἐξεπλήσσοντο. The tense implies the continuance of the astonishment, or the passing of it from group to group.

The meaning of this astonishing discourse was not lost upon the audience. No word could express more clearly the wonder and sense of novelty excited by the language and (as we may believe) the looks and bearing of Jesus. It was the astonishment of men who find themselves listening to the proclamation of a revolution set forth with marvellous force and beauty of language, who quite unconsciously find themselves face to face with a national crisis, the greatness of which was recognised by the listeners with a swiftness of spiritual perception only paralleled by the intellectual quickness of an Athenian crowd.

οἱ ὄχλοι. The crowds, i.e. the various groups that composed the assemblage.

τῇ διδαχῇ αὐτοῦ. ‘His teaching,’ both the matter and the manner of it.

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Matthew 7:28

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