Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

General references

Bible References

He sighed

Mark 3:5
And when he had looked around on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
Mark 7:34
And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith to him, Effatha, that is, Be opened.
Mark 9:19
He answered him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you, how long shall I suffer you? bring him to me.
Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Luke 19:41
And when he had come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
John 11:33
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled;

Why

Mark 6:6
And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went around the villages teaching.
Luke 16:29
Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
Luke 22:67
Saying, Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said to them, If I tell you, ye will not believe.
John 12:37
But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:

There

Matthew 12:39
But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh for a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matthew 16:4
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh for a sign; and there shall no sign been to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. And he left them, and departed.
Luke 11:29
And when the people were assembled in crowds, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

General references

Luke 11:16
And others tempting him, sought from him a sign from heaven.