• “What is this?” everyone asks in 1:27, “A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him.”3 • “Why does this fellow talk like that?” ask the scribes in 2:7. “He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” • “Who is this?” ask Jesus’ awe-struck disciples in 4:41. “Even the wind and the waves obey him!” • “Where did this man get these things?” ask the people from Jesus’ hometown in 6:2–3. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does
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