The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!”
The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
The attendants replied, Never has a man talked as this Man talks! [No mere man has ever spoken as He speaks!]
The officers answered, Never man so spake.
The guards answered, “No one has ever spoken the way he does.”
The attendants responded, "Never has a man spoken like this man."
The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.
And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?”
and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority.
And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.