Luke 11:16 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁶ Then others, trying to test Him, asked Him to perform a [supernatural] sign from heaven.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ While others, to try and test and tempt Him, demanded a sign of Him from heaven.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And others, trying him, sought of him a sign from heaven.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Others were testing him, seeking a sign from heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And others, testing him, required a sign from heaven of him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven.

Luke 11:16 Cross References

Luke 11:29

And when the crowds thronged around Jesus, He began saying, “This generation of people is evil, [for] it is looking for a [supernatural] sign. But no [such] sign will be given to it except the sign [demonstrated in the life] of Jonah.

John 6:30

And they said to Him, “What kind of a [miraculous] sign will you perform so that we can see it and [then] believe [in] you? What [kind of] deed will you perform?

John 8:6

They said this to test Him, in order to have a charge to bring against Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote [something] on the ground [i.e., in the dirt] with His finger.

1 Corinthians 1:22

Now Jews ask for [miraculous] signs and Greeks [i.e., Gentiles] are looking for wisdom,