Mark 8:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and having sighed deeply in his spirit, he saith, `Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.'

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  • Mark 7:34 : 34 and having looked to the heaven, he sighed, and saith to him, `Ephphatha,' that is, `Be thou opened;'
  • Mark 9:19 : 19 And he answering him, said, `O generation unbelieving, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I suffer you? bring him unto me;'
  • Luke 11:29-30 : 29 And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, `This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet, 30 for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.
  • Luke 16:29-31 : 29 `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; 30 and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform. 31 And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'
  • Luke 19:41 : 41 And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it,
  • Luke 22:67-70 : 67 saying, `If thou be the Christ, tell us.' And he said to them, `If I may tell you, ye will not believe; 68 and if I also question `you', ye will not answer me or send me away; 69 henceforth, there shall be the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power of God.' 70 And they all said, `Thou, then, art the Son of God?' and he said unto them, `Ye say `it', because I am;'
  • John 11:33-38 : 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said, 34 `Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;' 35 Jesus wept. 36 The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!' 37 and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?' 38 Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,
  • John 12:37-43 : 37 yet he having done so many signs before them, they were not believing in him, 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, `Lord, who gave credence to our report? and the arm of the Lord -- to whom was it revealed?' 39 Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said, 40 `He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;' 41 these things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. 42 Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue, 43 for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.
  • Matt 12:39-40 : 39 And he answering said to them, `A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet; 40 for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 `A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.
  • Mark 3:5 : 5 And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;' and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other;
  • Mark 6:6 : 6 and he wondered because of their unbelief. And he was going round the villages, in a circle, teaching,

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