while others, to test him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of Jonah.
So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you perform?
This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,