Discovery BoxMatthew 16:1 
ContextThe Demand for a Sign
16:1 Now when the Pharisees 1 and Sadducees 2 came to test Jesus, 3 they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 4
Matthew 16:4
Context16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then 5 he left them and went away.
Matthew 16:6
Context16:6 “Watch out,” Jesus said to them, “beware of the yeast of the Pharisees 6 and Sadducees.” 7
1 sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.
2 sn See the note on Sadducees in 3:7.
3 tn The object of the participle πειράζοντες (peirazontes) is not given in the Greek text but has been supplied here for clarity.
4 sn What exactly this sign would have been, given what Jesus was already doing, is not clear. But here is where the fence-sitters reside, refusing to commit to him.
5 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
