Mark 2:8

8 Jesus knew immediately what these teachers of the law were thinking. So he said to them, "Why are you thinking these things?

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 of the teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves,

7 "Why does this man say things like that? He is speaking as if he were God. Only God can forgive sins."

8 Jesus knew immediately what these teachers of the law were thinking. So he said to them, "Why are you thinking these things?

9 Which is easier: to tell this paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to tell him, 'Stand up. Take your mat and walk'?

10 But I will prove to you that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." So Jesus said to the paralyzed man,