Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Mark 2:6

6. But there were certain of the scribes--"and the Pharisees" (Lu 5:21)

sitting there--those Jewish ecclesiastics who, as Luke told us (Lu 5:17), "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.