Bede

The people, however, reported to him the same word, etc. With the Lord clearly teaching, and proclaiming the ejection and downfall of the prince of the world, all the people indeed, as the evangelist recalls, were amazed, hearing him: but the envious lawyers and chief priests, inquiring how they might quench his saving deeds, or even destroy him, marking him with the note of pride and fury, because he revealed himself as the author of sobriety and humility.

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