While others, to test him, asked him for some sign from the heavens.
As the crowds increased, Jesus began to speak: "This generation is a wicked generation. It is asking a sign, but no sign shall be given it except the sign of Jonah.
"What sign, then," they asked, "are you giving, which we may see, and so believe you? What is the work that you are doing?
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While Jews ask for miraculous signs, and Greeks study philosophy,