Never man so spake (oudepote elalēsen houtōs anthrōpos). Police officers are not usually carried away by public speech. They had fallen under the power of Jesus “as the Galilean peasants had been impressed” (Bernard) in Joh 7:28. It was the words of Jesus that had so gripped these officers, not his works (Joh 15:24). It was most disconcerting to the Sanhedrin.