Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.
And certain of the scribes answering said, Teacher, thou hast well said.
And certain of the scribes answering said, `Teacher, thou didst say well;'
And some of the scribes answering said, Teacher, thou hast well spoken.
Luke — Luke's 'orderly account' (1:3) follows Jesus from Bethlehem through the long travel narrative to Jerusalem and the Emmaus road.
Voices2
They, indeed, who had caught the very force of His voice, and pronunciation, and expression, discovered no other sense than what had reference to the matter of the question. Accordingly, the Scribes exclaimed, "Master, Thou hast well said." For He had affirmed the resurrection, by describing the form thereof in opposition to the opinion of the Sadducees.
Tertullian· Against Marcion Book IV, 220patristic
Then certain of the Scribes, answering said,.... Who believed the doctrine of the resurrection, which the Sadducees denied, and so were pleased with our Lord's reasoning on this subject: master, thou hast well said; thou hast spoken in a beautiful manner, reasoned finely upon this head, and set this matter in a fair and clear light; See Gill on Mar 12:28.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches6
And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together.
Now one of the scribes had come up and heard their debate. Noticing how well Jesus had answered them, he asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”
A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
And they were unable to trap Him in His words before the people; and amazed at His answer, they fell silent.
“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Acts 23:9A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken…
leads to
Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance
I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’
The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.
On their way out, they said to one another, “This man has done nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.”
When the scribes who were Pharisees saw Jesus eating with these people, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
