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The Pharisees and Sadducees Seek a Sign

1 Then the aPharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven.  
2 He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’;
3 and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’1 Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.  
4 aA wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of1 the prophet Jonah.” And He left them and departed.  

The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees

5 Now awhen His disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.  
6 Then Jesus said to them, a“Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”  
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There is perhaps even a more critical question. Do faithful, spiritually-minded people really need a sign? Hebrews 11 gives no indication that these people, whose lives are extolled by God, needed miracles in order to keep them going. But in Matthew 16, notice what Jesus says.

Who was it, brethren, who asked for a sign? Who asked for a miracle? It was those whose hearts were farthest from Him. It was the unbelieving, the hecklers. It was the critics. These were people who cared nothing for the real Jesus and so occasionally they became the objects of His scathing denunciations. "Hypocrites," He called them for asking for a sign.

Excerpted from Is God a Magician?

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