He was their unanswerable argument. No one, then, need hesitate to stand with Peter and John, with Jesus Himself. Note again, that those who have not much scholarship are yet fully competent to sit in judgment on that which scholarship offers. There are some scholars who vehemently deny this. They maintain that unless people have studied their books and mastered their learning and, in short, coincide with their opinions, they are not scholars.
Little weight is to be attached to their notions.
If any man willeth to do His will, he shall, know of the teaching, whether it is of, God or whether I speak from Myself. It is not scholarship, then, which renders one competent to decide whether a doctrine is from God or not, but honest devotion to the will of God. Note finally, that all this becomes the more manifest and emphatic when we remember that the history of scholarship is largely the record of mistakes. In times past, the astrologers and alchemists were reckoned as the scholars of the world, and it may be that there are some like vagaries today that pass for scholarship. The fundamental truths of revelation have endured through many generations.