who heareth, expresses the continuance of the relation between the faithful Jew and the God who teaches him; and the past: who has learned, that result produced at each moment which is preparation for the act of faith. Bäumlein reconciles by this expression the analogous form: ὁ τὸν λόγον ἀκούων καὶ συνιείς, of Matt. 13:23.—The judgment, therefore, which shall befall the actual hearers of Jesus will, like the reproach 5:38, and the threat 5:45, be aimed at a fault preceding their present unbelief.