And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Matthew 7:28-29

Jesus taught. He taught like no other. He taught as one having authority.

You think? He IS God! He taught about the kingdom of God. He said the kingdom of God was “at hand.”

He taught calling people to repent—meaning, turn from sin, to God. He taught calling people to believe in Him to the degree that they would follow Him.

Why did He teach? Because, as He Himself said in Luke 4:43, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent."

He came to save His people from their sins. Ultimately that was accomplished by His death and resurrection. But the first phase of saving His people was preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God (Mark 1:14-15).

He taught the kingdom of God, which is synonymous with forgiveness and salvation. Jesus taught using parables—stories that contained spiritual truth that His people (the ones He came to save) would understand—but that the rest would misunderstand entirely.

As He taught, He was kind, compassionate, and merciful to sinners. Conversely, He was brutal on the religious crowd, who didn’t think they needed a Savior. The sinners knew they were sinners. The religious didn’t realize that they too were sinners. The sinners had no hope, the religious hoped in themselves—in their religious rituals and good deeds. Jesus called sinners to Himself. He called the religious people hypocrites and sons of snakes!

There has never been, nor will there ever be a teacher like Jesus!