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 He answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. And there shall be no sign given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

And He sighed deeply in His spirit and said, Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I say to you, There shall no sign be given to this generation.

And with many other words he earnestly testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

But

And Jehovah had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

But the crowds pressing on Him, He began to say, This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet.

And he

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

Though they bring up their sons, yet I will make them childless, without a man. Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

And they began to beg Him to leave their borders.

And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking his garment, he said to them, Your blood is on your own heads. I am pure from it. From now on I will go to the nations.

General references

And others, tempting Him, sought a sign from Heaven from him.

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