Mat_7:29.
Ἦν
διδάσκων
] expresses more emphatically than a simple imperf. that it was a continuous thing, Kühner, II. 1, p. 35. Winer, p. 526 f. [E. T. 437].
ὡς
ἐξουσίαν
ἔχων
] as one who is invested with prophetic authority, in contrast to the
γραμματεῖς
, in listening to whom one could hear that they were not authorized to speak in the same fearless, candid, unconstrained, convincing, telling, forcible way. “All was full of life, and sounded as though it had hands and feet,” Luther. Comp. Luk_4:32; Luk_4:36; Mar_1:22; Mar_1:27; Rev_9:19.