Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    When Iesus perceaved the thoughtes of their hertes he toke a chylde and set him hard by him

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    When Iesus sawe the thoughtes of their heartes, he tooke a litle childe, and set him by him,

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Cross-references (16)

Passages linked to Luke 9:47 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 139:23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
  • Luke 5:22 But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
  • John 16:30 Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
  • Psalms 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
  • Matthew 9:4 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
  • Matthew 19:13-15 Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.” He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.
  • John 2:25 and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
  • 1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
  • Hebrews 4:13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
  • Revelation 2:23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
  • Jeremiah 17:10 “I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
  • Matthew 18:2-4 Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them, and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • Mark 10:14-15 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”
  • Luke 7:39-40 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.” Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” He said, “Teacher, say on.”
  • John 21:17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
  • 1 Peter 2:1-2 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Jesus said unto him, forbid him not,.... "Or…

And Jesus said unto him, forbid him not,.... "Or forbid not" him, or any other so doing:

for he that is not against us, is for us: in two exemplars of Beza's it is read, "for he is not against you": the Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions, instead of "us", in both clauses read "you", and so likewise the Persic and Ethiopic versions; See Gill on Mar 9:39, Mar 9:40.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Matt. xviii, 2; Mark ix, 37.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 47. perceiving the thought of their heart] He asked…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (47) Took a child.—Better, laid hold on.
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 9:47 Jesus knew their thoughts: See 5:22; 7:39-40.

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