Bible verse
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
Matthew 12:38 · BSB
The verses around it, from Matthew 12.
34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
35 The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.
36 But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
39 Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41 The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
42 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
KJV
Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
ASV
Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we would see a sign from thee.
ERV
Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
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