18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
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This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. …
And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)It was not the least grievous of the sufferings of Christ, that he endured the contradiction of sinners against himself , and had snares laid for him by those that sought how to take him off with some pretence. In these verses, we have him attacked by the Pharisees and Herodians with a question about paying tribute to Caesar. Observe, I. What the design was, which they proposed to themselves; They…
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