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He[a] said, “When evening comes you say, ‘It will be fair weather, because the sky is red,’ and in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, because the sky is red and darkening.’[b] You know how to judge correctly the appearance of the sky,[c] but you cannot evaluate the signs of the times. A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then[d] he left them and went away.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 16:2 tn Grk “But answering, he said to them.” The construction has been simplified in the translation and δέ (de) has not been translated.
  2. Matthew 16:3 tn Or “red and gloomy” (L&N 14.56).
  3. Matthew 16:3 tn Grk “The face of the sky you know how to discern.”
  4. Matthew 16:4 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.