the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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John 2:18
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But Jesus's actions stirred up the Jewish leaders. They asked him, "Who do you think you are? If God gave you authority to do this, then give us a sign to prove it, cowboy."
The Jews then said to Him, "What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?"
The Jews then said to Him, "What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?"
Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?
The Jews therefore answered and said to him, What sign shewest thou to us, that thou doest these things?
So the Jews answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?"
So the Jews replied to Him, "What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things?"
The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show to us, seeing that you do these things?"
Then answered the Jews and said to him, What sign shewest thou us, seeing thou dost these things?
So the Jews asked Him, "What proof of your authority do you exhibit to us, seeing that you do these things?"
Then answered the Iewes, and said vnto him, What signe shewest thou vnto vs, seeing that thou doest these things?
Then answered the Iewes, and sayde vnto him: What token shewest thou vnto vs, that thou mayest do these thinges?
whereupon the Jews said, what miracle can you show to justify your behaviour?
But the Jews were upset. They asked, "What credentials can you present to justify this?" Jesus answered, "Tear down this Temple and in three days I'll put it back together."
Then the Jews retorted, "What sign (attesting miracle) can You show us as [proof of] your authority for doing these things?"
The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
The Jews then said to him, "What sign have you to show us for doing this?"
Then answered the Iewes and sayde vnto him: what token shewest thou vnto vs seynge that thou dost these thinges?
The Jews therefore answered and said to him, What sign do you show to us, seeing that you do these things?
Then answered the Jews, and said to him, What sign showest thou to us, seeing that thou doest these things?
Some of his people said to Jesus, "Show us a miracle to prove you have the right to do these things."
So then the Jewish leaders responded, "What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?"
The Jewish leaders asked Jesus, "What miracle will you work to show us why you have done this?"
So the Judeans confronted him by asking him, "What miraculous sign can you show us to prove you have the right to do all this?"
Then answered the Iewes, and saide vnto him, What signe shewest thou vnto vs, that thou doest these things?
The Jews answered and said to him, What sign do you show us, that you are doing these things?
The Yehudim therefore answered him, "What sign do you show to us, seeing that you do these things?"
Then the Jews said to him, "What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?"Matthew 12:38; John 6:30;">[xr]
The Jihudoyee answered and said to him, What sign showest thou to us, as these things thou doest ?
But the Jews replied, and said to him: What sign showest thou to us, since thou doest these things?
But the Jewish leaders demanded, "What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it."
Then the Jews asked Him, "What can You do to show us You have the right and the power to do these things?"
The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
On account of this, the Jews demanded, "What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?"
The Jews then said to him, "What sign can you show us for doing this?"
The Jews therefore answered, and said unto him, What sign, dost thou point out to us, in that, these things, thou doest?
The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these things?"
Then aunswered the Iewes, & sayde vnto hym: What token shewest thou vnto vs, seeyng that thou doest these thynges?
Some Jews said to Jesus, "Show us a miracle as a sign from God. Prove that you have the right to do these things."
So the Jews said to him, "What sign do you show us for doing these things?"
The Jews then said to Him, "What sign do You show us as Your authority for doing these things?"
The Jewish authorities came back at him with a question, "What miracle can you perform to show us that you have the right to do this?"
Therfor the Jewis answeriden, and seiden to hym, What token schewist thou to vs, that thou doist these thingis?
the Jews then answered and said to him, `What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?'
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
What: John 6:30, Matthew 12:38-42, Matthew 16:1-4, Mark 8:11, Luke 11:29
seeing: John 1:25, Matthew 21:23, Mark 11:27, Mark 11:28, Luke 20:1, Luke 20:2, Acts 4:7, Acts 5:28
Reciprocal: Exodus 7:9 - Show 1 Kings 13:3 - General Matthew 21:10 - Who Mark 14:57 - and bare Mark 15:29 - Ah John 4:48 - Except Romans 1:4 - the Son 1 Corinthians 1:22 - the Jews
Cross-References
And God saw everything that He had made and behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning the sixth day.
And Jehovah God formed the man out of dust from the ground, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And out of the ground Jehovah God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The Tree of Life was also in the middle of the garden; also the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The name of the first was Pishon; it is the one surrounding all the land of Havilah where gold is ;
the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium gum resin, and the onyx stone.
And the name of the second river is Gihon. It is the one surrounding all the land of Cush.
And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me, she has given to me of the tree, and I ate.
And her mother-in-law Naomi said to her, My daughter, do I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
Whoever finds a wife finds good, and gets favor from Jehovah.
But if anyone thinks it behaving indecently toward his virgin (if she is beyond her prime, and so it ought to be), let him do what he desires; he does not sin; let them marry.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then answered the Jews, and said unto him,.... They did not lay hands on him, or offer any violence to him; they did not, as the inhabitants of Nazareth did, thrust him out, and lead him to a precipice, to cast him down headlong; nor did they take up stones to stone him, as they afterwards did, when he asserted his deity: and it is surprising, that they did not rise up and destroy him at once, a single man, unarmed, and without assistance, having so highly provoked them; the restraint upon them must be his almighty power: nor do they deny what he suggested, that they had made his Father's house an house of merchandise; nor do they offer to vindicate their profanation of the temple, or object to the purging of it; only demand a proof of his right to do it: and which demand was made, not by the common people, or by the sellers of oxen, sheep, and doves, and the money changers, who were drove out, and had not spirit to rally again; but by the chief priests and elders, the sanhedrim of the nation, who had the care and government of the temple, and under whose authority the above persons acted; and whose gain and worldly interest were promoted hereby, as a like demand was afterwards made by the same persons; see Matthew 21:23;
what sign shewest thou unto us, seeing thou dost these things? they argued, that either he did these things of himself, by his own authority, and then they must be deemed rash and unjustifiable; or he did it by the authority of others: they knew it was not by theirs, who were the great council of the nation, from whom he should have had his instructions and orders, if he acted by human authority; and if he pretended to a divine authority, as they supposed he did, then they insisted upon a sign or miracle to be wrought, to prove that God was his Father, as he suggested; and that he was the proprietor and owner of the temple, and had a right to purge it, as he had done; see 1 Corinthians 1:22.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
What sign ... - What “miracle” dost thou work? He assumed the character of a prophet. He was reforming, by his “authority,” the temple. It was natural to ask by what authority this was done; and as they had been accustomed to miracles in the life of Moses, and Elijah, and the other prophets, so they demanded evidence that he had authority thus to cleanse the house of God.
Seeing that thou doest - Rather “by what title or authority thou doest these things.” Our translation is ambiguous. They wished to know “by what miracle” he had shown, or could show, his right to do those things.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 2:18. What sign showest thou — See notes on Matthew 12:38; Matthew 16:1. When Moses came to deliver Israel, he gave signs, or miracles, that he acted under a Divine commission. What miracle dost thou work to show us that thou art vested with similar authority?
