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What does Luke 4:32 mean?

"and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority."

— Luke 4:32 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

29

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

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But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

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He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

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and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

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In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

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saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

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Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

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