<p>22:33&nbsp;<em>And when the crowds heard it</em>- Our debates with others are often not so much in order to convert them, but the listening audience and onlookers. And the Lord was ever aware of this. See on :42.</p><p><em>They were astonished at his teaching</em>- Yet for all this, it was &ldquo;the multitude&rdquo; who were soon shouting for His blood. Mere intellectual persuasion of the truth of theology is no guarantee that a person is truly with the Lord.</p>