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In the hearing of all the people (akouontos pantos tou laou). Genitive absolute, “while all the people were listening” (present active participle). That is the time to speak. The details in this verse and Luk 20:47 are precisely those given in Mar 12:38., which see notes for discussion of details. Matthew 23:1-39 has a very full and rich description of this last phase of the debate in the temple where Jesus drew a full-length portrait of the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and scribes in their presence. It was a solemn climax to this last public appearance of Christ in the temple when Jesus poured out the vials of his indignation as he had done before (Mat 16:2; Luk 11:12, Luk 11:15-18).