Matthew 12:38 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁸Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.

Matthew 12:38 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:22
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
Mark 8:11-12
And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him. …
Luke 11:16
And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
John 2:18
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
Luke 11:29
And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 38-45)

It is probable that these Pharisees with whom Christ is here in discourse were not the same that cavilled at him (Matt. 12:24), and would not credit the signs he gave; but another set of them, who saw that there was no reason to discredit them, but would not content themselves with the signs he gave, nor admit the evidence of them, unless he would give them such further proof as they should demand…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 38)

38. Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master--“Teacher,” equivalent to “Rabbi.” we would see a sign from thee--“a sign from heaven” (Lu 11:16); something of an immediate and decisive nature, to show, not that His miracles were real--that they seemed willing to concede--but that they were from above, not from beneath. These were not the same class with those who cha…