Mat 16:1-4 | ISV | STEP | The Demand for a Sign from Heaven When the Pharisees and Sadducees arrived, as a test they asked Jesus to show them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 16:1-4

1 The Demand for a Sign from Heaven Mark 8:11-13; Luke 12:54-56

When the Pharisees and Sadducees arrived, as a test they asked Jesus ^{▼▼Lit. him} to show them a sign from heaven.Matt 12:38; Mark 8:11; Luke 11:16; 12:54-56; 1Cor 1:22 2 He replied to them, “You say,

‘Red sky at night,

what a delight!

3 Red sky in the morning,

cloudy and storming.’

You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, yet you can't interpret the signs of the times? ^{▼▼Other mss. lack You say. . . the signs of the times?} 4 An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.Matt 12:39