“And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.”
They were amazed at his teaching, because his message had authority — the Capernaum amazement at the authority (exousia) of the teaching echoes Mark 1:22. The authority is not the authority of citation and tradition but the authority of the one who speaks what he himself knows. The contrast with the Nazareth rejection is implicit: where Nazareth knew the carpenter's son, Capernaum hears the teacher with authority.
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