12 Bible Verses about Testing Christ

And [when] the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test [him], they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

And the Pharisees came and began to argue with him, demanding from him a sign from heaven [in order to] test him.

And others, [in order to] test [him], were demanding from him a sign from heaven.

And one of them, a legal expert, put a question to [him] to test him:

And Pharisees came up to him [in order to] test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause.

And they asked him if it was permitted for a man to divorce [his] wife, [in order to] test him.

And behold, a certain legal expert stood up to test him, saying, "Teacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?"

(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have [an occasion] to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write with [his] finger on the ground, taking no notice.

But [because he] knew their maliciousness, Jesus said, "Hypocrites! Why are you testing me?

But [because he] knew their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius so that I can look at [it]!"

"And you are the ones who have remained with me in my trials,

[and] said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people, and behold, [when I] examined [him] before you, I found nothing in this man as basis for the accusation which {you are making} against him