Jesus perceived their wickedne . This must have been done by His power of searching the heart and proves that He was omniscient. No mere m…

You hypocrites — The special form of the hypocrisy was that the questioners had come, not openly as disputants, but as just me…

Our great thought-reading King was not to be deceived either by their flattery or their crafty questioning.

Pseudo-Chrysostom: Just as when someone tries to dam a flowing stream, as soon as one outlet is blocked, it carves out …

But Jesus will not be forced into a yes or no reply. He recognizes the duplicity of his opponents. Jesus chooses to answer them on his own terms an…

Knowing their malice. They had opened the conversation in such a manner that they did not appear to differ at all from excellent scholars.…

But Jesus perceived their wickedness Luke says, "their craftiness"; and Mark says, "knowing their hypocrisy"; for there w…

The Pharisees sent their disciples with the Herodians, a party among the Jews who favored full subjection to the Roman emperor. Though opposed to e…

Above, the Lord refuted the Pharisees by a parable; here, He manifests His wisdom in a second way by disputing with them. He does so in two ways: