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2. ποίᾳ ἐξουσίᾳ. ‘By what kind of authority.’ The implication is ‘you are only called a Rabbi by courtesy;’ you are not a ‘pupil of the wise;’ you are not a priest, or a scribe, or a political functionary. Yet you usurp functions which rather belong to Caiaphas, or the President of the Sanhedrin, or the Romans, or Herod. If you act as a Prophet shew us a sign. Practically it was the old taunt by which He had been grieved in Galilee (Mat 12:39; Mat 16:4).
ὁ δούς. Every recognised Rabbi had received his diploma; every Priest his ordination.