马太福音 9:4

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

耶穌看出他們所想的，就說：“你們心裡為甚麼存著惡念呢？

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 稣 知 道 他 们 的 心 意 ， 就 说 ： 你 们 为 甚 麽 心 里 怀 着 恶 念 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

¹ Jesus got into a boat and went back across the lake to his own town. ² Some people brought to Jesus a man who was paralyzed and lying on a mat. When Jesus saw the faith of these people, he said to the paralyzed man, "Be encouraged, young man. Your sins are forgiven." ³ Some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, "This man speaks as if he were God. That is blasphemy!" ⁴ Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why are you thinking evil thoughts? ⁵ Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,' or to tell him, ‘Stand up and walk'? ⁶ But I will prove to you that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." Then Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "Stand up, take your mat, and go home." ⁷ And the man stood up and went home. ⁸ When the people saw this, they were amazed and praised God for giving power like this to human beings.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

knowing: Matthew 12:25, Matthew 16:7, Matthew 16:8, Psalms 44:21, Psalms 139:2, Mark 2:8, Mark 8:16, Mark 8:17, Mark 12:15, Luke 5:22, Luke 6:8, Luke 7:40, Luke 9:46, Luke 9:47, Luke 11:17, John 2:24, John 2:25, John 6:61, John 6:64, John 16:19, John 16:30, John 21:17, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:23

Wherefore: Ezekiel 38:10, Acts 5:3, Acts 5:4, Acts 5:9, Acts 8:20-22

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:8 - the Lord heareth Proverbs 23:7 - as Proverbs 24:9 - thought Isaiah 66:18 - their thoughts Daniel 11:24 - forecast his devices Amos 4:13 - and declareth Matthew 15:19 - evil Mark 7:21 - evil 1 Corinthians 13:5 - thinketh

Cross-References

Genesis 9:10
and with every living thing that is with you—the birds, the tame and the wild animals, and with everything that came out of the boat with you—with every living thing on earth.

Genesis 9:14
When I bring clouds over the earth and a rainbow appears in them,

Leviticus 3:17
"‘This law will continue for people from now on, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or blood.'"

Leviticus 7:26
No matter where you live, you must not eat blood from any bird or animal.

Leviticus 19:26
"‘You must not eat anything with the blood in it. "‘You must not try to tell the future by signs or black magic.

Deuteronomy 12:16
but do not eat the blood. Pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23
but be sure you don't eat the blood, because the life is in the blood. Don't eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 14:21
Do not eat anything you find that is already dead. You may give it to a foreigner living in your town, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. Do not cook a baby goat in its mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23
But don't eat its blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

Acts 15:20
Instead, we should write a letter to them telling them these things: Stay away from food that has been offered to idols (which makes it unclean), any kind of sexual sin, eating animals that have been strangled, and blood.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jesus knowing their thoughts,.... Which was a clear evidence, and full demonstration of his deity; for none knows the thoughts of the heart but God; and since he knew the thoughts of men's hearts, it could be no blasphemy in him to take that to himself which belonged to God, even to forgive sins. And this, one would think, would have been sufficient to have approved himself to them as the true Messiah; since this is one of the ways of knowing the Messiah, according to the Jews, and which they made use of to discover a false one.

"Bar Coziba, (they say g,) reigned two years and a half: he said to the Rabbins, I am the Messiah; they replied to him, it is written of the Messiah, that he is "of quick understanding, and judges", (referring to Isaiah 11:3) let us see whether this man is of quick understanding, and can make judgment, i.e. whether a man is wicked, or not, without any external proof; and when they saw he was not of quick understanding, and could not judge in this manner, they slew him.''

But now Christ needed not any testimony of men; he knew what was in the hearts of men, of which this instance is a glaring proof: hence he said,

wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? it was no evil in them to think that God only could forgive sin; but the evil was, that they thought Christ was a mere man, and ought not to have took so much upon him; and that, for so doing, he was a wicked man, and a blasphemer.

g T. Bab. Sanhedrim, fol. 93. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jesus, knowing their thoughts - Mark says, “Jesus perceived “in his spirit” that they so reasoned.” The power of searching the heart, and of knowing the thoughts of people, belongs only to God, 1 Chronicles 28:9; Romans 8:27; Revelation 2:23; Jeremiah 17:10. In claiming this, as Jesus did here, and often elsewhere, he gave clear proofs of his omniscience, John 2:24-25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 9:4. Jesus knowing (ιδων seeing) their thoughts — In telling them what the thoughts of their hearts were, (for they had expressed nothing publicly,) he gave them the fullest proof of his power to forgive sins; because God only can forgive sins, and God only can search and know the heart. Jesus pronounced the man's sins forgiven; and gave the scribes the fullest proof of his power to do so, by telling them what, in the secret of their souls, they thought on the subject.

God sounds the secrets of all hearts-no sin escapes his notice; how senseless then is the sinner to think he sins securely when unseen by men! Let us take heed to our hearts, as well as to our conduct, for God searches out and condemns all that does not spring from, and leads not to himself.