But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
But there were certain of the scribes - "and the Pharisees" (Luke 5:21), "sitting there" - those Jewish ecclesiastics who, as Luke told us, "were come out of every village of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem," to make their observations upon this wonderful Person, in anything but a teachable spirit, though as yet their venomous and murderous feeling had not showed itself; "and reasoning in their hearts,"