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Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
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Before healing the man, Jesus performs another miracle: he reads the minds of the scribes. Commentators emphasize that Jesus perceived their thoughts "in his spirit," not through observation. This act of supernatural knowledge was an immediate demonstration of his divine authority, challenging their unspoken accusation of blasphemy even before he addressed it with the healing.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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19th Century
Anglican
When Jesus perceived in his spirit.—The special mention of the spirit as the region of our Lord’s consciousness is, as part of this narrat…
Baptist
But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive s…
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The teachers of the law had not openly expressed their misgivings about Jesus’ action, but Jesus knew their thoughts and challenged them with the q…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his Spirit "His own Spirit", as the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethi…
It was this man's misery that he needed to be so carried, and this shows the suffering state of human life. It was kind of those who so carried him…
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