The multitudes "glorified God, who had given such authority to men" (9:8). Why does Matthew say men?

Matthew gives what the multitudes saw and what they did, and these notes don't go beyond it. Jesus had said, "that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" (9:6), and told the paralytic, "Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house" (9:6). "He arose and departed to his house" (9:7). "But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men" (9:8) (tap authority). Mark and Luke end the scene with other words: "We never saw anything like this!" (Mark 2:12), and "We have seen strange things today." (Luke 5:26). Matthew doesn't say whom the multitudes meant by men, or what they understood about the Son of Man, and these notes don't say either.