Matthew 16:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

Wicked

Matthew 12:39

Mark 8:12

Acts 2:40

But

Jonah 1:17

Luke 11:29

And he

General references

Luke 11:16

Luke 20:8

Bible References

Wicked

But having answered, he said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.

And having sighed deeply in his spirit, he says, Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I am telling you, if a sign will be given to this generation.

And with many more other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this crooked generation.

But

And LORD prepared a great sea creature to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the sea creature three days and three nights.

And when the multitudes gathered together he began to say, This generation is evil. They seek a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

And he

Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

And LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he also is flesh. Yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.

Though they bring up their sons, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

And they began to beg him to depart from their borders.

But when they opposed and slandered him, having shaken out his clothes, he said to them, Your blood is upon your heads. I am clean. From henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

General references

And others, challenging, sought from him a sign from the sky.

And Jesus said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.