The Narrow Gate
When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at His teaching, Matthew 7:28 · Berean Standard Bible
When Jesus finished speaking, the crowds were absolutely amazed at what they had just heard.
After three chapters of the most revolutionary teaching ever given, the people were left speechless.
Matthew, describing the crowd's reaction.
This captures the moment after the Sermon: everyone who heard it knew they had just witnessed something extraordinary.
Matthew notes the crowd's response: ekplesso (astonishment/amazement) at Jesus' didache (teaching), indicating that the Sermon made a profound impact on those who heard it.
This is Matthew's editorial conclusion to the Sermon, transitioning from Jesus' words to the narrator's perspective on the crowd's reaction.
Matthew the narrator, describing the crowd's reaction.
This editorial note serves as a literary bridge from the Sermon on the Mount to the narrative action that follows in chapters 8-9.
26But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
27The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”
28When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at His teaching,
29because He taught as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
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