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Luk 7:29. Καὶ πᾶς, and all) Luke sets forth what the people did, and what on the other hand the Pharisees did, in order that he may show, why Jesus spake at the one time those things which are joined together by both verses.[73] A similar division of the sentence is to be seen, Mat 9:6.[74]-ἈΚΟΎΣΑς, having heard) John.-καὶ) and [that is] especially the publicans, whom others had most despaired of as irreclaimable.-ἐδικαίωσαν, justified) They approved and submitted to the ordinance of God, the baptism of repentance, as being just. The same verb occurs presently, Luk 7:35.
[73] i.e. The things spoken Luk 7:24-28, which refer to the multitude (τοὺς ὄχλους; in Luk 7:24, answering to ὁ λαὸς, Luk 7:29), are joined with those spoken Luk 7:31-35, in reference to the Pharisees and lawyers (Luk 7:30), by the pair of verses, 29, 30, introduced parenthetically by way of explanation.-ED. and TRANSL.
[74] Where similarly the writer introduces, parenthetically, a necessary remark of his own between the former and latter parts of Christ’s words.-ED. and TRANSL.