"When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law" (Matthew 7:28,29).
I spent some time in an academic environment where people didn't speak of the Truth but truths. It was unheard of for truth to be singular--and anathema for it to have a capital. In retrospect, I see it as a form of denying Christ. Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6). There is the Truth and the Truth is Christ.
This is why Jesus could speak with such authority. He knew who He was. He was the Power of the universe, he was the Love of God, he was Truth.
"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline" (2 Timothy 1:7).
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