Luke 5:22
But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
In Context
23Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’?
Cross References
Psalms 139:2You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
Isaiah 66:18“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.
Matthew 9:4Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Mark 8:17Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet or understand? Is your heart still hardened?
Acts 5:3But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Revelation 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
Matthew Henry on Luke 5:18-27
Cure of a Paralytic. 17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judæa, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. 18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. 19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the… Read the whole commentary →