{"id":9738,"date":"2024-08-27T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9738"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:28:37","slug":"matthew-chapter-16-demand-for-a-sign","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9738","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Chapter 16 Demand for a Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"\\&quot;wp-block-heading\\&quot; wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>16&nbsp;<\/strong>The Pharisees and Sadducees&nbsp;came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>He replied,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#fb0000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cWhen evening comes, you say, \u2018It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,\u2019\u00a0<sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>and in the morning, \u2018Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.\u2019 You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.<sup>[<a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%2016&amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-23676a\\\">a<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0<sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.\u201d<\/mark>\u00a0Jesus then left them and went away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16&nbsp;The Pharisees and Sadducees&nbsp;came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven. 2\u00a0He replied,\u00a0\u201cWhen evening comes, you say, \u2018It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,\u2019\u00a03\u00a0and in the morning, \u2018Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.\u2019 You know how to interpret [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9738","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Matthew Chapter 16 Demand for a Sign &#8212; 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