48 And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.



Ver. 48. Were very attentive to hear him] Gr. åîåêñåìáôï , hanged on him, as the bee doth on the flower, the babe on the breast, or the little bird on the bill of her dam. Christ drew the people after him, as it were, by the golden chain of his heavenly eloquence.