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Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
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A Test, Not a Sincere Quest
Commentators explain that the request for a "sign from heaven" was not a sincere search for truth but a hostile "tempting" or "testing" of Jesus. The challengers dismissed the powerful miracle of exorcism they had just witnessed, demanding a more spectacular, heavenly display. As John Calvin notes, this was a "plausible pretext for their unbelief."
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Tempting him (πειραζοντες). These "others" (ετερο) apparently realized the futility of the charge of being in league with Beelzebu…
19th Century
Baptist
And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
"You are doing this work from beneath," they said, "now do something tha…
The setting of this account of the Beelzebub controversy is the healing of a deaf mute. Such a healing was among the signs of his messiahship that …
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16th Century
Protestant
And others tempting sought from him a sign. Something similar to this is later related by Matthew (Matthew 16:4) and by Mark (…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And others tempting him Others of the Scribes and Pharisees, or Sadducees: sought of him a sign from hea…
Presbyterian
Christ's casting out the devils in this way was really the destruction of their power. The heart of every unconverted sinner is the devil's palace,…
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