Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth. The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and indeed something greater than Jonah is here! The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and indeed something greater than Solomon is here! (Matthew 12:38-42, NRSVue)
Give us a sign so we will believe what you say.
Why do we need a sign or a way to prove what we are told?
Yes, we should test things and wonder, but had not Jesus done enough at this point to show that God was working in and through him? How much do we really need?
May the faith that Jesus gave us be enough for us to believe in the absence of empirical proof of all the promises of God.
Belief is in the hoped-for, not in the seen.
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