the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Matthew 9:4
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Perceiving their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why are you thinking evil things in your hearts?
And Iesus knowing their thoughts, said, Wherefore thinke yee euill in your hearts?
And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
And Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, said, "Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why are you thinking evil thoughts?
But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
But when Iesus saw their thoughts, he said, Wherefore thinke yee euil things in your hearts?
And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, "Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?
And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, "Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?
But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, "Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?
But Jesus knew what was in their minds, and he said, "Why are you thinking such evil things?
Yeshua, knowing what they were thinking, said, "Why are you entertaining evil thoughts in your hearts?
And Jesus, seeing their thoughts, said, Why do *ye* think evil things in your hearts?
Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he said, "Why are you thinking such evil thoughts?
But Jesus knew their thoughts; so he said to them, Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Jesus perceived what they were thinking, and so he said, "Why are you thinking such evil things?
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And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
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And Jesus seeing their thoughts said, Why think ye evil in your hearts?
Knowing their thoughts Jesus said, "Why are you cherishing evil thoughts in your hearts?
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And Jesus seeing their thoughts said, Why do you think evil in your hearts?
And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why think ye evil in your hearts?
When Jesus perceived their thoughts he said, "Why do you respond with evil in your hearts?
But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he asked them, "Why do you have such evil thoughts in your hearts?
Jesus knew what they were thinking. He said, "Why do you think bad thoughts in your hearts?
But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
And Jesus, knowing, their inward thoughts, said, - To what end are ye cherishing evil thoughts within your hearts?
And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in your hearts?
But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
And whe Iesus sawe their thoughtes he sayd: wherfore thinke ye evill in youre hertes?
And Jesus, having known their thoughts, said, `Why think ye evil in your hearts?
But when Iesus sawe their thoughtes, he sayde: wherfore thinke ye euill in youre hertes?.
and Jesus perceiving their reflections, said, why do you entertain so bad an opinion?
Jesus knew what they were thinking, and said, "Why this gossipy whispering? Which do you think is simpler: to say, ‘I forgive your sins,' or, ‘Get up and walk'? Well, just so it's clear that I'm the Son of Man and authorized to do either, or both...." At this he turned to the paraplegic and said, "Get up. Take your bed and go home." And the man did it. The crowd was awestruck, amazed and pleased that God had authorized Jesus to work among them this way.
Jesus knew what they were thinking and saying. He said to them, "Why are your minds filled with evil?
Contextual Overview
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
And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.
And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,
Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.
And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.
Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.
But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.
You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from 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.
