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After (epeidē, epei and dē). This conjunction was written epei dē in Homer and is simple epei with the intensive dē added and even epei dē per once in N.T. (Luk 1:1). This is the only instance of the temporal use of epeidē in the N.T. The causal sense occurs only in Luke and Paul, for epei is the correct text in Mat 21:46.
Had ended (eplērōsen). First aorist active indicative. There is here a reference to the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount, but with nothing concerning the impression produced by the discourse such as is seen in Mat 7:28. This verse really belongs as the conclusion of Chapter 6, not as the beginning of Chapter 7.
In the ears of the people (eis tas akoas tou laou). Akoē from akouō, to hear, is used of the sense of hearing (1Co 12:17), the ear with which one hears (Mar 7:35; Heb 5:11), the thing heard or the report (Rom 10:16) or oral instruction (Gal 3:2, Gal 3:5). Both Mat 8:5-13; Luk 7:1-10 locate the healing of the centurion’s servant in Capernaum where Jesus was after the Sermon on the Mount.