Matthew 7:29

For he taught them as [one] having authority, and not as the scribes.

For {G1063} he taught {G1321}{G2258} them {G846} as {G5613} one having {G2192} authority {G1849}, and {G2532} not {G3756} as {G5613} the scribes {G1122}.

for he was not instructing them like their Torah-teachers but as one who had authority himself.

because He taught as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.

for he taught them asonehaving authority, and not as their scribes.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Luke 20:8 (5 votes)

    And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

  • Hebrews 4:12 (5 votes)

    For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

  • Hebrews 4:13 (5 votes)

    Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

  • Mark 7:5 (3 votes)

    Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

  • Mark 7:13 (3 votes)

    Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

  • Deuteronomy 18:18 (3 votes)

    I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

  • Deuteronomy 18:19 (3 votes)

    And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require [it] of him.