As a teacher Jesus made a striking impression, very different from the official teachers: “They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes” (Mark 1:22). Behind the Greek word for “authority” lies the rabbinic term for the power or might of God, the Gevurah: “He speaks from the mouth of the Gevurah,”28 that is, from the mouth of power or Spirit.
