And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
Ver. 4. Wherefore think ye evil, &c.] Christ confutes their calumny, and proves himself to be God, and to have power to pardon sin, by discerning and condemning their evil thoughts. "I the Lord search the heart," Jeremiah 17:10. Satan may give a shrewd guess; and so may men too; as Bartollus writes of Doctor Gabriel Nele, that by the only motion of the lips, without any utterance, he understood all men, perceived and read in every man's countenance what he meant, &c. But none can certainly know the thoughts of man, but God alone. It is his royalty to "know what is in man,"John 2:25 .