Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 7:29

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

The same words also are repeated, Mar. 1.22. Luk. 4.32. They declare the Effect of this, and other of our Saviours Sermons, upon the Hearts of those that heard him, and the reason of it. They were astonished, affected with an Admiration at what they heard him in this, and other Sermons deliver; the Divine Verities revealed in his Discourses, the purity of his Doctrine, the convincing Power that attended it, his bold and free Speech without r[illegible: 1 letter]spect of Persons, the Simplicity of his Phrase, the Gravity of his Matter: The Majesty he shewed in his Discourses affected the People, and made him appear to them, one sent of God and Clothed with his Authority. He did not teach as the Scribes, the ordinary Teachers amongst the Iews, from whom they had the Discourses about Traditions, and Rites, and Ceremonies, Cold, and dull Discourses, of little or no Tendency, to their eternal Salvation.