Perceiving (επιγνους). Same form (second aorist active participle of επιγινωσκω, common verb for knowing fully) in Mr 2:8.

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When Jesus perceived their thoughts.—Better, their reasonings, the Greek noun being formed from the verb used in Luke 5:21.

Began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, …

St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Scribes and Pharisees who had become witnesses to Christ’s miracles also heard Him teaching. This…

Luke indicates that Jesus exercised extraordinary knowledge by having insight into one’s inner thoughts. He placed his challengers in a hypothetica…

But when Jesus perceived their thoughts Being God omniscient;

How many are there in our assemblies, where the gospel is preached, who do not sit under the Word, but are mere onlookers! It is to them like a sto…