{Never man so spake} (oudepote elal(8873)en hout(9373) anthr(9370)os).
Police officers are not usually carried away by public speech.
They had fallen under the power of Jesus "as the Galilean
peasants had been impressed" (Bernard) in verses  28f . It was
the words of Jesus that had so gripped these officers, not his
works ( 15:24 ). It was most disconcerting to the Sanhedrin.