ἀκούοντος … παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ. ‘While all the people were listening.’ Here followed the final rupture of Jesus with the authorities—political, social, and religious—of His nation. They had now made their own condemnation inevitable, and had justly provoked that great Denunciation (Matthew 23) on which (as less intelligible to Gentiles) St Luke here only touches. But he has given it in part before (Luke 11:39-52).

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