What is the Jacobian's form of a discretized PDE?

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I need to solve a PDE using finite difference method with the Newton-Raphson Method. In the merhod, I need to calculate the Jacobian matrix of the residual of the discretised PDE.

The PDE may be like:

$$ K\frac{\partial{C}}{\partial{t}} - \nabla\cdot(\lambda\nabla{C}) = q. $$

So the residual $R$ of one time step ($\Delta t$) is

$$ R = K (\partial{C}) - \nabla\cdot(\lambda\nabla{C})\Delta t - q\Delta t $$

Then I need to write the Jacobian of the residual (wrt. $C$; i.e., $\frac{\partial{R}}{\partial{C}}$) for minimizing the residual and finding the solution. Could anyone tell me that what is the discretized form of $\frac{\partial{R}}{\partial{C}}$? A two dimensional spatial discretization (x, y) is OK. Thank you.