- Vss. 11-12: The Pharisees Ask For a Sign From Heaven:
They choose to challenge:
- The legitimacy of His power,
- The trustworthiness of His character,
- The authority behind His acts.
Mark 2:7; “Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Mark 3:22; “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.”
Matthew 16:1-4: And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, Foul weather today; for the sky is red and gloomy. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky, but you cannot see the signs of the times! . An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.
1Corinthians 1: 22-23: For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles.
- Vss. 13-15: Jesus Warns of the Leaven of the Pharisees and Herod.
Luke 12:1 says: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.”
1 Corinthians 5:6-8: Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Galatians 5:9; A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
- Vss. 16-21: The Disciples Lack of Understanding:
Psalms 103:1-2: Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
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