<p>22:22&nbsp;<em>And when they heard it, they marvelled and left him and went away</em>- The record is making a clear connection back to the use of the same word in the preceding parable, where the Jews &quot;went their way&quot; (:5) having been invited to the banquet, off to their immediate concerns. The Lord had challenged them to give themselves to God, seeing they were made in His image, and stop worrying about petty issues such as the writing on a coin. This challenge was another form of the invitation to the banquet. They perceived what He was saying- for they &quot;marvelled&quot;. Just as the Jews heard the invitation to the banquet. But they went their way- and that way was the way to crucifying the Lord, killing the messenger of God. Going that evil way is thus paralleled with going the way of petty materialism.</p><p>Lk. 20:26 concludes that &ldquo;They could not take hold of His words before the people&rdquo;. The Greek for &ldquo;take hold&rdquo; is elsewhere used about the Jews finally taking hold of the Lord in arrest and crucifixion. The Jews are also recorded as not being able to do this physically to Him in public, &ldquo;before the people&rdquo;. But Luke speaks of the Jews doing these things in relation to &ldquo;His words&rdquo;. This is Luke&rsquo;s way of saying what John says in so many words- that the Lord Jesus was so identified with His words, which were God&rsquo;s words, that He was &ldquo;the word made flesh&rdquo;, the living personification of His own words, in whom there was perfect congruence between His essential self and His words.</p>