Mat 7:28-29 | JFB | STEP | 28. And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine —rather, "His teaching," for the reference is to the manner of it quite as much as the matter, or rather more so.

Matthew 7:28-29

28. And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine—rather, "His teaching," for the reference is to the manner of it quite as much as the matter, or rather more so.

29. For he taught them as one having authority—The word "one," which our translators have here inserted, only weakens the statement.

and not as the scribes—The consciousness of divine authority, as Lawgiver, Expounder and Judge, so beamed through His teaching, that the scribes' teaching could not but appear drivelling in such a light.