Matthew 9:4 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 9:4

But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?

KJV

And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verses 3, 4.) And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves: He blasphemes. And when Jesus saw their thoughts, he said: Why do you think evil in your hearts? We read in the Prophet, saying God: I am the one who blots out your iniquities (Isaiah 43:25). Therefore, the scribes, because they thought he was a man and did not understand the words of God, accuse him of blasphemy.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

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.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2337: “The Physician Pardons His Palsied Patient” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1893)

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἰδὼν	idōn	seeing	G1492 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
ἐνθυμήσεις	enthumēseis	thoughts	G1761 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
εἶπεν·	eipen	He said;	G2036 →
ἱνατί	hinati	so why	G2443 →G5101 →
ἐνθυμεῖσθε	enthumeisthe	think	G1760 →
πονηρὰ	ponēra	evil	G4190 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ταῖς	tais	the	G3588 →
καρδίαις	kardiais	hearts	G2588 →
ὑμῶν;	humōn	of you?	G4771 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 11:17
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and a house divided against a house will fall.
leads to
- Mark 3:23–27
  So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Matthew 12:25
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.
leads to
- Galatians 5:15
  But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
- Jeremiah 17:10
  I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
Through
Psalms 139:2
You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
leads to
- 2 Kings 19:27
  But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
- Isaiah 37:28
  But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
- Luke 9:47
  But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, had a little child stand beside Him.
- Psalms 94:11
  The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
Through
Revelation 2:23
Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
leads to
- Matthew 16:27
  For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.