He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: The altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.”
John 2:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The Jews then said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the Jews retorted, What sign can You show us, seeing You do these things? [What sign, miracle, token, indication can You give us as evidence that You have authority and are commissioned to act in this way?] American Standard Version (1901) The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? Common English Bible Then the Jewish leaders asked him, “By what authority are you doing these things? What miraculous sign will you show us?” Catholic Public Domain Version Then the Jews responded and said to him, "What sign can you show to us, that you may do these things?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things? |
He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: The altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.”
“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.’ ”
When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”
The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, asking him for a sign from heaven, to test him.
When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation; it asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.
This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
They asked him, “Why, then, are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
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?
When they had made the prisoners stand in their midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”
saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you are determined to bring this man’s blood on us.”