Matthew 7:29 - Plain English Version

²⁹ You see, they knew he told them God’s word properly. He knew what he was talking about. Their law teachers never talked like that.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ For He was teaching as One Who had [and was] authority, and not as [did] the scribes.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

Common English Bible

²⁹ because he was teaching them like someone with authority and not like their legal experts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ For he was teaching them as one who has authority, and not like their scribes and Pharisees.

Matthew 7:29 Cross References

Matthew 28:18

Then Jesus said to them, “God, my father, has made me boss over everything now. I’m boss over everything up in heaven. And I’m boss over everything down here on the earth.

Matthew 5:20

I’m telling you this, if you don’t do everything that God says, then you can’t come into his family. You know that mob called Pharisees. They are really strong for our Jewish law. And you know the mob that teach our Jewish law. Well, you have to follow God’s law better than all of that Pharisee mob and that law teacher mob.”

Matthew 5:28

But now I’m telling you this. If you look at a woman that is not your wife, and you think about sleeping with her, that is bad too. If you think about doing that, you are going wrong. Thinking about it is just as bad as doing it.

Matthew 5:32

But now I’m telling you this, husbands and wives have to stay married to each other. Only if a man’s wife sleeps with another man, as if he is her husband, only then can her husband divorce her. But if a wife never does that, then her husband can’t divorce her. If he divorces her, he is forcing her to marry another man and sleep with him, and that is wrong. And the man that marries her is doing wrong too.”

Matthew 5:44

But I’m telling you to do more than that. You have to love your enemies too. And if anyone makes trouble for you, pray to God and ask him to be good to them.

Matthew 7:28

Then Jesus finished talking to that big mob of people. They were really surprised as they listened to what he told them.

Acts 6:10

But God’s Holy Spirit helped Stephen to think properly and gave him the right words to say. His words were so strong that those men couldn’t win any argument.