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Why was it evil for the scribes and Pharisees to ask a sign from Jesus?
because they would not believe with faith like God wants for us to do. We must be faithful and we will know truely in our hearts and souls and we need no proof b/c physical proof is nothing and faith is everything.



By: Lesa Braddock
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Why was it evil for the scribes and Pharisees to ask a sign from Jesus?
They had seen or had herd of Jesus healing the sick or causing the blind to see and many other miracles that Jesus had performed yet they still did not belive all they wanted to do was to try proof He was a fake when He wasn`t.



By: Myles
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Why was it evil for the scribes and Pharisees to ask a sign from Jesus?
They should have trusted Jesus in the first place. But they wanted to do it their way and their way didn`t get them very far at all. Jesus is the way for everything all you have to do is ask.



By: Myra Gonzalez
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As kingdom children and heirs to the throne, why do we ask for signs?



By: susan annette
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Why was it evil for the scribes and Pharisees to ask a sign from Jesus?
Everything about Jesus was a sign and they knew it. The condition of their hearts were not to glorify God but to glorify themselves. Jesus does not have to prove himself!



By: susan annette
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Why was it evil for the scribes and Pharisees to ask a sign from Jesus?
Because they should not tempt God bribing Him asking for a proof a proof of what kind then? with all that they should have already seen? For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Here Jesus is referring i think to the Resurrection the greatest miracle that should have dispelled the doubts of all. At the right time. Victory over death. By whom? i am wondering how many times in the Gospels Jesus is referred to or refers too Himself as the Son of God. I mean he sometimse says that who refuses him refuses the Father and that who sees him sees the Father, but i was struck, istincytive obserbvtaions soi i could be wrong, by how many times he says i am the Son of Man. Implying trying to remind everyone that Man was made in the image of God that we are all called to inheritance of the Kingdom by looking up at God Himself who did not simply fashioned man in his likeness but Who became Man himself to show us the Redeeming Power of the Holy Spirit of which we are all imbued with the Baptism brought ius by Christ.



By: Alessandra Parrini
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The Sign of Jonah

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."
But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here. But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it. Then he says, 'I will return into my house from which I came out,' and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation."

Matthew 12:38-45
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