Mark 2:8

8 Jesus immediately recognized what they were discussing, and he said to them, " Why do you fill your minds with these questions?

Mark 2:8 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 2:8

And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his Spirit
"His own Spirit", as the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read; not his human soul, nor the holy Spirit of God, though both may be said to be his Spirit; but his divine nature, in and by which he knew all things, even the most sacred thoughts of men's hearts: and as soon as ever the above thoughts were conceived in the minds of the Scribes and Pharisees, they were perceived by him, and told to them,

that they so reasoned within themselves; he said unto them, why
reason ye these things in your hearts?
thereby reproving them, not for reasoning and concluding in their own minds, that none but God can forgive sins; but for imputing blasphemy to him, for pronouncing this man's sins pardoned; he being God, as well as man, of which his knowing the thoughts and reasonings of their minds might have been a convincing proof.

Mark 2:8 In-Context

6 Some legal experts were sitting there, muttering among themselves,

7 "Why does he speak this way? He's insulting God. Only the one God can forgive sins."

8 Jesus immediately recognized what they were discussing, and he said to them, "Why do you fill your minds with these questions?

9 Which is easier—to say to a paralyzed person, ‘Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, ‘Get up, take up your bed, and walk'?

10 But so you will know that the Human One has authority on the earth to forgive sins"—he said to the man who was paralyzed,