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Monday: A Startling Standard
At the very end of the Sermon on the Mount we read that the people who heard Jesus “were astonished at his doctrine; for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes” (Matt. 7:28-29). The statement indicates that the unprecedented authority of the Lord Jesus Christ was startling to his contemporaries.