A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah.
And he left them, and departed.
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Remigius of Rheims
AD 533
Wondrous blindness of the Pharisees and Sadducees! They asked a sign from heaven, as though the things they now saw were not signs. John shows what signit was they desired; for he relates, that after the feeding with the five loaves, the multitudes came to the Lord and said, “What sign doest thou, that we may see it and believe on thee? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, asit is written, He gave them bread to eat from heaven.” Therefore when they say here, Shew us asign from heaven, they mean, Cause that it rain manna for one or two days, that the whole people may eat, as was done for a long time in the desert. He looking into their thoughts as God, and knowing that even if a sign from heaven should be showed them they would not believe, would not give them the sign for which they asked, as it follows, “But he answered and said unto them, When the evening is come, ye say, It will be fair weather; for the sky is red”
