Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Never man spake like this man--Noble testimony of unsophisticated men! Doubtless they were strangers to the profound intent of Christ's teaching, but there was that in it which by its mysterious grandeur and transparent purity and grace, held them spellbound. No doubt it was of God that they should so feel, that their arm might be paralyzed, as Christ's hour was not yet come; but even in human teaching there has sometimes been felt such a divine power, that men who came to kill them (for example, ROWLAND HISS) have confessed to all that they were unmanned.
would have taken him; but, etc.--(See on John 7:30).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Song of Solomon 5:13
John 10:37-39
Colossians 4:6
1 Timothy 3:16
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