Luke 9:47
But Jesus perceived the thought of their heart, and he took a little child, and made it stand by him,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
In Context
46And there arose a contention among them, which of them should be greatest.
Cross References
Matthew 9:4And Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, said: Why do evil thoughts arise in your hearts?
Matthew 19:13Then little children were brought to him, that he might lay his hands on them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them.
Luke 5:22But Jesus perceived their reasonings, and answered and said to them: Why are you reasoning in your hearts?
John 2:25and had no need that any one should testify of man, for he himself knew what was in man.
John 21:17He said to him a third time: Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep.
Matthew Henry on Luke 9:44-51
Ambition of the Disciples Reproved. 43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples, 44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men. 45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying. 46 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest. 47 And… Read the whole commentary →