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Matthew 16:1-4
Tested for a Sign
Confession and the Way Ahead · Matthew 16
Story guide: Religious leaders press Jesus for a sign, and he refuses to turn faith into a spectacle.
Open this scene in the reader →1And the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
2But he answered and said to them, “When evening comes, you say, ‘Fair weather, for the sky is red.’
3And in the morning, ‘Today, stormy weather, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you are not able to discern the signs of the times.
4An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. And leaving them, he went away.
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