Matthew recorded Jesus' discourse on His kingdom and its gospel without interruption, just as the Lord would have presented it to the multitude that day in Galilee. Yet Matthew didn't leave his readers to speculate on the effect of Jesus' sermon on His hearers; he closed his account by noting that the crowd was astonished - not merely because of what Jesus said, but primarily because of how He said what He said. The scribes (Israel's teachers of the Law) possessed a subservient authority - first, because they taught as representatives of particular rabbinical traditions, but also because they were, in theory at least, disciples of Moses and the prophets. The scribes were subject to the Scriptures and their ultimate authority, but here was a man claiming authority, not only over scriptural interpretation, but over the Scriptures themselves. No scribe would ever think of doing such a thing. But Jesus could make this claim because He understood the Scriptures and recognized that, in their entirety, they spoke of Him. The Law, Prophets, and Writings are subject to Him because He is their grand subject and object. So it is that Jesus' gospel of His kingdom didn't in any way oppose or contradict the Scriptures and their promise; rather, it confirmed them and the fact that the day of fulfillment had come.
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