30 is clearly not a remark made by the Evangelist on the reception which our Saviour's words were receiving at the hands of his auditory; but our Saviour's own statement of the reception which His Forerunner's preaching had met with at the hands of the common people and the publicans on the one hand,--the Pharisees and the Scribes on the other.
Hence the inferential particle [Greek: oun] in the 31st verse; and the use in ver.

35 of the same verb ([Greek: edikaiothe]) which the Divine Speaker had employed in ver.

29: whereby He takes up His previous statement while He applies and enforces it.
Another specimen of unauthorized accretion originating in the same way is found a little farther on.

In St.Luke ix.

1 ('And having called together His twelve Disciples'), the words [Greek: mathetas autou] are confessedly spurious: being condemned by nearly every known cursive and uncial.