Others by way of tempting him demanded he should give them a Sign from heaven.
"Well then," they said, "what is the Sign you perform, that we may see it and believe you? What work have you to show?
Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom,
As the crowds were thronging to him, he proceeded to say, "This is an evil generation: it demands a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of Jonah;
(They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;