The Yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees

16 The Pharisees and Sadducees approached,(A) and as a test, asked Him to show them a sign from heaven.(B)

He answered them: “When evening comes you say, ‘It will be good weather because the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy because the sky is red and threatening.’ You[a] know how to read the appearance of the sky, but you can’t read the signs of the times.[b] An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of[c] Jonah.”(C) Then He left them and went away.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 16:3 Other mss read Hypocrites! You
  2. Matthew 16:3 Other mss omit When (v. 2) through end of v. 3
  3. Matthew 16:4 Other mss add the prophet

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