But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil in your hearts? The knowledge of thoughts is a divine attribute: Psalm 139:2 says God knows my thoughts before I utter them. Jesus' knowing their thoughts is therefore itself a demonstration of what the scribes are denying — the kind of knowledge that belongs to God is present in Jesus. The evil in their hearts is the determination to interpret the evidence against Jesus rather than to let the evidence question their framework. The same evidence — Jesus declaring sins forgiven and healing a paralytic — is read as blasphemy by those who have decided against him and as the authority of the Son of Man by those who have not.

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