The
Pharisees were getting frustrated. Jesus
had told his disciples to have nothing to do with the blind
guides. The Pharisees can’t best
Jesus in their thinking or knowledge of God’s word, so they asked for a sign.
Realize that
some of the Pharisees had seen the mighty acts of God delivered through Jesus
and sometimes through Jesus and his disciples.
So why do they ask for a sign?
The
Pharisees want Jesus to perform for them.
They want a miracle on demand.
They want Jesus to recognize their status and comply with their request
for a sign.
Then Jesus
dives into a nautical piece of wisdom. Red
sky in the morning, sailor take warning.
Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.
OK, the nautical saying came later surely in concert with the words of
Jesus.
Jesus told
these religious hypocrites that they understood the signs of the day, but not
the signs of God. The men who were to
have known God more than everyone else, knew him the least.
Jesus noted
that it was a sinful generation that sought a sign. A sinful generation was blind to the mighty
acts of God at work in the world and the Son of God standing before them.
Jesus has
already noted that the Pharisees were the blind leading the blind.
There would
be no sign except the sign of Jonah.
The Pharisees would get a real tongue
lashing in a few
more chapters, but for now, Jesus just walked away from them.
Amen.
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