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Matthew 12:38

American Standard Version

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we would see a sign from thee.

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Matthew 12:38 in other translations

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

Matthew 12:38 · World English Bible

Matthew 12:38 in context

  1. 36And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
  2. 37For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
  3. 38Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we would see a sign from thee.
  4. 39But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet:
  5. 40for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.