The Demand for a Sign

16 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test Jesus^[a] they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.^(A)

¹² And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”^(A)

¹⁸ The Jews then said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?”^(A)

³⁰ So they said to him, “What sign are you going to give us, then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing?^(A)

²² For Jews ask for signs and Greeks desire wisdom,