At this point, some Teachers of the Law and Pharisees interposed. "Teacher," they said, " we want to see some sign from you."

"It is a wicked and unfaithful generation," answered Jesus, "that is asking for a sign, and no sign shall be given it except the sign of the Prophet Jonah.

Here the Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and, to test Jesus, requested him to show them some sign from the heavens.

A wicked and unfaithful generation is asking for a sign, but no sign shall be given it except the sign of Jonah." So he left them and went away.

So, while Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came up to him privately and said: "Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign of your Coming, and of the close of the age."

Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heavens; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn, when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the heavens,' with power and great glory;

Here the Pharisees came out, and began to argue with Jesus, asking him for some sign from the heavens, to test him.

Sighing deeply, Jesus said: "Why does this generation ask for a sign? I tell you, no sign shall be given it."

"Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign when all this is drawing to its close."

And this shall be the sign for you. You will find the infant swathed, and lying in a manger."

Simeon gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother: "This child is appointed to be the cause of the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign much spoken against--

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.

For, as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

So the disciples questioned Jesus: "But, Teacher, when will this be? and what sign will there be when this is near?"

When Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly pleased, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, having heard a great deal about him; and he was hoping to see some sign given by him.

This, the first sign of his mission, Jesus gave at Cana in Galilee, and by it revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Upon this the Jews asked Jesus: "What sign are you going to show us, since you act in this way?"

This was the second occasion on which Jesus gave a sign of his mission on coming from Judea to Galilee.

"What sign, then," they asked, "are you giving, which we may see, and so believe you? What is the work that you are doing?

"John gave no sign of his mission," they said; "but everything that he said about this man was true."

This, indeed, was why the crowd met him--because people had heard that he had given this sign of his mission.

"What are we to do to these men?" they asked one another. "That a remarkable sign has been given through them is obvious to every one living in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

On a sign from the Governor, Paul made this reply: "Knowing, as I do, for how many years you have acted as Judge to this nation, it is with confidence that I undertake my own defense.

Not after, but before. And it was as a sign of this that he received the rite of circumcision-to attest the righteousness due to the faith of an uncircumcised man-in order that he might be the father of all who have faith in God even when uncircumcised, that they also may be regarded by God as righteous;

But sin took advantage of the Commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life.

Therefore the gift of the 'tongues' is intended as a sign, not for those who believe in Christ, but for those who do not, while the gift of preaching is intended as a sign, not for those who do not believe in Christ, but for those who do.

Even while in our present body we sigh, longing to put over it our heavenly dwelling,

For we who are in this 'tent' sigh under our burden, unwilling to take it off, yet wishing to put our heavenly body over it, so that all that is mortal may be absorbed in Life.

Without ever shrinking from your opponents. To them this will be a sign of their Destruction and of your Salvation--a sign from God.