The Lord taught in the synagogue of Capernaum, and everyone marveled at His teaching: “For He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes” (Mark 1:22). This power is not a commanding tone, but the power of influence on souls and hearts. His Word went inside and knitted people’s consciences, indicating that everything was as He said. Such is always the word, imbued with the power of the Divine, the word from the Spirit, or the anointed word. This was the case with the holy apostles, and after them with all influential teachers, who spoke not from scientific knowledge, but from how the spirit allowed them to preach. This is a gift of God, acquired, however, by working not only on the study of the truth, but more on the heartfelt and vital assimilation of it. Where this is accomplished, there the word is imbued with persuasiveness, because it passes from heart to heart; here is the power of the word over souls. Scribes, who speak and write from a scientific point of view, are not given such power, because they speak from their heads and pour their speculations into their heads. There is no life in the head, but only the tip of it. Life is in the heart, and only what comes from the heart can influence the currents of life.