Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we would see a sign from thee.
Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:
The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
And others, trying him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe.
And when the multitudes were gathering together unto him, he began to say, This generation is an evil generation: it seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah.
They said therefore unto him, What then doest thou for a sign, that we may see, and believe thee? what workest thou?
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.