Matthew 9:33

9:33 After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!”

Matthew 23:27

23:27 “Woe to you, experts in the law ¹  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean. ² 

Matthew 24:27

24:27 For just like the lightning ³  comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

¹ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

² sn This was an idiom for hypocrisy – just as the wall was painted on the outside but something different on the inside, so this person was not what he appeared or pretended to be (for discussion of a similar metaphor, see L&N 88.234; BDAG 1010 s.v. τοῖχος). See Deut 28:22; Ezek 13:10-16; Acts 23:3.

¹ sn The Son of Man’s coming in power will be sudden and obvious like lightning. No one will need to point it out.