Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we would like to have some Sign from you."

He replied to them, "It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of the prophet Jonah;

Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.

"It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, and no Sign shall be given to it except the Sign of Jonah." Then he left them and went away.

So as he sat on the Hill of Olives the disciples came up to him in private and said, "Tell us, when will this happen? What will be the sign of your arrival and of the end of the world?"

Then the Sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven; then all tribes on earth will wail, they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and glory.

and looking up to heaven with a sigh he said to him, "Ephphatha" (which means, Open).

Now the Pharisees came out and started to argue with him, asking him for a Sign from heaven, by way of tempting him.

But he sighed in spirit and said, "Why does this generation demand a Sign? I tell you truly, no Sign shall be given this generation."

"Tell us, when is this to happen? What will be the sign for all this to be accomplished?"

but Symeon blessed them, and to his mother Mary he said, "This child is destined for the downfall as well as for the rise of many a one in Israel; destined to be a Sign for man's attack ??35 to bring out the secret aims of many a heart. And your own soul will be pierced by a spear."

Others by way of tempting him demanded he should give them a Sign from heaven.

As the crowds were thronging to him, he proceeded to say, "This is an evil generation: it demands a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of Jonah;

for as Jonah was a Sign to the Ninivites, so shall the Son of man be to this generation.

So they asked him, "Teacher, and when will this happen? What will be the sign for this to take place?"

Then the Jews accosted him with the words, "What sign of authority have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

This was the second Sign which Jesus performed again after leaving Judaea for Galilee.

Now when the people saw the Sign he had performed, they said, "This really is the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

"Well then," they said, "what is the Sign you perform, that we may see it and believe you? What work have you to show?

and many came to him, saying, "John did not perform any Sign, but all he ever said about this man was true."

and that was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard he had performed this Sign.

Many another Sign did Jesus perform in presence of his disciples, which is not recorded in this book;

He only got circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which belonged to his faith as an uncircumcised man. The object of this was to make him the father of all who believe as uncircumcised persons and thus have righteousness counted to them,

and not only so, but even we ourselves, who have the Spirit as a foretaste of the future, even we sigh to ourselves as we wait for the redemption of the body that means our full sonship.

Thus 'tongues' are intended as a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; whereas prophesying is meant for believers, not for unbelievers.

It makes me sigh indeed, this yearning to be under the cover of my heavenly habitation,

I do sigh within this tent of mine with heavy anxiety ??not that I want to be stripped, no, but to be under the cover of the other, to have my mortal element absorbed by life.