The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!”
All were speaking well of him, and were amazed at the gracious words coming out of his mouth. They said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
They were amazed at his teaching, because he spoke with authority.
Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?
The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
