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 <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>in today’s Gospel Jesus teaches in the synagogue at Capernaum. One of 
the things that he comes to do is to teach,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>for </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">at the root </span>of our 
troubles and our suffering is a powerful clouding of </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>the mind.</b></span> What is 
it like to be in the same room with Jesus?<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> “The people were astonished 
at his teaching, for he taught them as one having
authority and not as the scribes.” </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span></b></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">“<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Astonished”</b></span>
 is a pretty strong word. But <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>we have to understand the tenor of the 
time. When a Jewish rabbi would speak, he would reference his 
teacher—another rabbi—who in turn had learned from another rabbi and he 
by another and so on. Finally, appeal would be made, implicitly or 
otherwise, to Moses, who had received <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the word and Commandments of God </span>
on Mt. Sinai.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">
</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>What
 makes Jesus’ teaching so striking—apart from the content, which is 
striking enough—is his manner of teaching.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>He doesn’t</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>appeal to “Rabbi 
so and so” and finally back to Moses.</b> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>He teaches on his own authority. 
</b></span>The Greek word here is instructive (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">exousia</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">), meaning <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>“from his own being.”</b></span> He moves through his public life, Chesterton said, <b>like a lightning
bolt.</b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br></div>
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