Matthew 12:38
Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
KJV
Τότε ἀπεκρίθησαν αὐτῷ τινες τῶν γραμματέων καὶ Φαρισαίων λέγοντες· διδάσκαλε, θέλομεν ἀπὸ σοῦ σημεῖον ἰδεῖν.
Greek NT
Tunc responderunt ei quidam de scribis et pharisæis, dicentes : Magister, volumus a te signum videre.
Vulgate
Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we would see a sign from thee.
ASV
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: Master, we would see a sign from thee.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- αὐτῷ — SBLGNT
- αὐτῷ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Frequent and fierce is the devil in his attacks, on all sides besieging our salvation; we therefore must watch and be sober, and everywhere fortify ourselves against his assault, for if he but gain some slight vantage ground, he goes on to make for himself a broad passage, and by degrees introduces all his forces. If then we have any care at all for our salvation, let us not…
2. Now then after that in every way he had shown her to be very exceedingly great, again he does so from another most important head, by a fresh comparison exalting her dignity, and saying thus; but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease. For if both these were brought in in order to the faith; when that is every where s…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:22 — For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
- 1Cor 1:22 — For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
- Isa 7:11 — Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
- John 2:18 — Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
- John 4:48 — Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
- John 6:30 — They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
- Luke 11:16 — And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
- Luke 11:16 — And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
- Luke 11:29 — And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
- Luke 11:29 — And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
- Mark 8:11 — And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
- Mark 8:11 — And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
- Matt 16:1 — The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.