Matthew 7:29

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Summary

Matthew 7:29

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

Having

Hebrews 4:12

And not

General references

Luke 4:32

Bible References

Having

Indeed I tell you that, unless your religion is above that of the Teachers of the Law, and Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

After Jesus had come into the Temple Courts, the Chief Priests and the Councillors of the Nation came up to him as he was teaching, and said: " What authority have you to do these things? Who gave you this authority?"

Then Jesus came up, and spoke to them thus: "All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.

For I will myself give you words, and a wisdom which all your opponents together will be unable to resist or defy.

Moses himself said--'The Lord your God will raise up from among your brothers a Prophet, as he raised me. To him you will listen whenever he speaks to you.

Yet they were quite unable to withstand the wisdom and the inspiration with which he spoke.

God's Message is a living and active power, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing its way till it penetrates soul and spirit--not the joints only but the very marrow--and detecting the inmost thoughts and purposes of the mind.

And not

Then some Pharisees and Teachers of the Law came to Jesus, and said:

"The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees now occupy the chair of Moses.

So the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law asked Jesus this question--"How is it that your disciples do not follow the traditions of our ancestors, but eat their food with defiled hands?"

"Then I," said Jesus, "refuse to tell you what authority I have to do these things."

General references

They were amazed at his teaching, because his words were spoken with authority.