New Revised Standard Version
They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone was amazed at his teaching. He taught with authority, and not like the teachers of the Law of Moses.

New American Bible
The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were astonished at his doctrine. For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes.

And they were astonished at his doctrine. For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes.

they were.

Jeremiah 23:29 Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Matthew 7:28,29 And it came to pass when Jesus had fully ended these words, the people were in admiration at his doctrine. . . .

Matthew 13:54 And coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogues, so that they wondered and said: How came this man by this wisdom and miracles?

Luke 4:32 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his speech was with power.

Luke 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.

John 7:46 The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.

Acts 6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit that spoke.

Acts 9:21,22 And all that heard him were astonished and said: Is not this he who persecuted in Jerusalem those that called upon this name and came hither for that intent, that he might carry them bound to the chief priests? . . .

2 Corinthians 4:2 But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

Hebrews 4:12,13 For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. . . .

as the.

Mark 7:3-13 For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients. . . .

Matthew 23:16-24 Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor. . . .