Matthew 7:28-29 ” When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at His teaching, because He taught as One Who had authority and not as their Teachers of the Law.”

Here Jesus is teaching in the Temple courts days before He will be crucified by the same crowds that will demand His execution. The people couldn’t put their finger on it, but there was something definitely different about the way Jesus taught. It wasn’t anything like the Scribes who were supposed to be skilled in explaining the Law and interpreting God’s Word for them. Rather, Jesus spoke as an expert in the Doctrine… teaching them in a manner that that clearly felt like He had been commissioned with the dominion, power, and right to speak of such things. His authoritative & authentic teaching even caught the Temple Officers off guard when they can back empty-handed and proclaimed in John 7:45-46, “No one ever spoke like this man!”

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A Christian mother, grandmother, and retired nurse living in Illinois. Called into a ministry of encouraging others to find their ultimate plan and purpose in life through Christ. View all posts by kezha1